Motivational Quotes

Adversity

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

- Saadi

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Johnson

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

10.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Horace

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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 hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Seneca

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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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.

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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