Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

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

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

Horace

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

Barclay, H.K.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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)

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Gesser

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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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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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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

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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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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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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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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Landers, Ann

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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