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

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

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

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Augustine, St.

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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 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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Virgil

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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.