Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Grant, Hanmer Parsons

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Qur'an

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Seneca

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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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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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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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

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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

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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