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

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

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

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

Devito, Danny

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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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

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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.

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Schmidt, Walt