Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

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

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

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

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Saadi

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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

41.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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.

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

Wells, H.G.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Aesop