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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Homer

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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

11.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

12.

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.

13.

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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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.

15.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

16.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

17.

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)

18.

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

Saadi

19.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

20.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

21.

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

22.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

23.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

24.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

25.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

26.

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

27.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

28.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

30.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

31.

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

Seneca

32.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

33.

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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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.

35.

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

Russell, Rosalind

36.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

37.

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

Devito, Danny

38.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

39.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

40.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

41.

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

Landers, Ann

42.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

43.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

44.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

45.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

47.

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

48.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

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

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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