Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Schmidt, Walt

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Gesser

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

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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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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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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Weltman, Phil

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

17.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Wells, H.G.

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Virgil

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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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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 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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

26.

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

27.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

28.

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

29.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

30.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

38.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

39.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

40.

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

41.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

43.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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