Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Gesser

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

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

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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

11.

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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shain, Merle

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Seneca

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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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

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

Benson, Taylor

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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