Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

10.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

11.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

13.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

14.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

15.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

16.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

18.

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

19.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

20.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

21.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

22.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

23.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

24.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

25.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

26.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

27.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

28.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

30.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

31.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

32.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

33.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

34.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

37.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

38.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

39.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

40.

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

42.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

43.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

44.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

45.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

46.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

48.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

49.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

50.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald