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

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Horace

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

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

Qur'an

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Weltman, Phil

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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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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

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Ward, William A.

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.