Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Hazlitt, William

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Bible

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horace

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

Aesop

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

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Wells, H.G.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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