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

Best Quotes about Adversity
Only entropy comes easy.
Mumford, Lewis
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Devito, Danny
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
Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Hemingway, Ernest
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Holtz, Lou
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]
Bible
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.
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Lawrence, Thomas E.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Seneca
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Heraclitus
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Tagore, Rabindranath
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.
If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.
Sheehan, George
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
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.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Rogers, James
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Hale, Edward Everett
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Schwab, Charles M.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Ziglar, Zig
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
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Gallagher, Robert C.
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
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
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
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
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Landers, Ann
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Russell, Rosalind
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, Italian
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
Swahili Warrior Song
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Warren, Earl
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine, St.
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
Macdonald, George
A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
Westcott, Edward Noyes
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Roethke, Theodore
They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]
Bible
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Pliny The Elder
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Salk, Lee
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
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
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Collins, Kitty O'neill
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Hill, Napoleon
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Scott, Sir Walter
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
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
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''
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Schuller, Robert H.
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