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

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

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

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.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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

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

Landers, Ann

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Wells, H.G.

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Keats, John

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.