Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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Best Quotes about Adversity

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

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

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

Devito, Danny

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Gesser

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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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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Ward, William A.

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

Seneca

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Homer

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

Wells, H.G.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Schmidt, Walt

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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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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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

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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