Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Maltz, Maxwell

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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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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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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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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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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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

43.

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

Benson, Taylor

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Russell, Rosalind

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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