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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
- Weltman, Phil
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Ash, Mary Kay

2.
If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

3.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Peale, Norman Vincent

4.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Post, Laurens Van du

5.
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

6.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus

7.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Weltman, Phil

8.
Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

9.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Saadi

10.
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Homer

11.
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.

12.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Hill, Napoleon

13.
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
Ford, Elias A.

14.
They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]
Bible

15.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

16.
Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

17.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

18.
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop

19.
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.

20.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
Hale, Edward Everett

21.
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Parker, Dorothy

22.
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)

23.
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Colton, Charles Caleb

25.
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Cocteau, Jean

26.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Holtz, Lou

27.
What is to give light must endure the burning.
Frankl, Viktor E.

28.
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Heraclitus

29.
Things were bad but now they are OK.
Seymour, Harold J.

30.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Devito, Danny

31.
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
Joshee, Anandabai

32.
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

34.
You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
Virgil

35.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch

36.
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
Cady, Emilie

37.
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Bible

38.
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Salk, Lee

39.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Sting

40.
The reward of suffering is experience.
Aeschylus

41.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Ford, Henry

42.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Horace

43.
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, Italian

44.
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Nixon, Richard M.

45.
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

46.
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Coppola, Francis Ford

47.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Bacon, Francis

48.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Byron, Lord

49.
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Maltz, Maxwell

50.
In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.


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