Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Proverb, Maori

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Ward, William A.

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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

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

Saadi

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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