Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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.

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

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

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Warren, Earl

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

Gesser

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

Seneca

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ward, William A.

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

Homer

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

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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.

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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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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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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

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

Walton, Sam

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Sheehan, George

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Virgil

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.