Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Walton, Sam

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

James, William

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Proverb, Maori

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Aesop

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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 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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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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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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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

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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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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