Adversity Quote by Henry Adams Download Open image “We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.” — Henry Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Combat Obstacles Order Repose
Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. — John Sharp Williams Copy Share Image
We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger. — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them. — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity. — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
