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

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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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.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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.

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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

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Weltman, Phil

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

Horace

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Sheehan, George

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George