Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Heraclitus

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

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

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

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

11.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Homer

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

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

24.

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

Virgil

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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

31.

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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

46.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Maori

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Bible

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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