Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Weltman, Phil

Best Quotes about Adversity

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Homer

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

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

Virgil

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

Wells, H.G.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

14.

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

Sting

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

Russell, Rosalind

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

17.

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

18.

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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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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

21.

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

Sheehan, George

22.

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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Weltman, Phil

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

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

Rogers, James

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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''

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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

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

Shain, Merle

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Holtz, Lou

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler