Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Movie, Apollo 13

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Heraclitus

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

Propertius, Sextus

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

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.

11.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

12.

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

14.

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

15.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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

Walton, Sam

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

Brown, Les

19.

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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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Virgil

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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

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

James, William

25.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

Talmud, The

28.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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

30.

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

Weltman, Phil

32.

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

Jung, Carl

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Seneca

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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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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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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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

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

47.

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

Devito, Danny

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