Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Adversity

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Walton, Sam

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

Weltman, Phil

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horace

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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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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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

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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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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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Saadi

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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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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Landers, Ann

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah