Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Adversity

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Shain, Merle

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Qur'an

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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

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

13.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Seneca

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

21.

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.

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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

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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

Rogers, James

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

41.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

45.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Homer

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Weltman, Phil