Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Adversity

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Talmud, The

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Homer

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Augustine, St.

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