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

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Aesop

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Gesser

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Virgil

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

Saadi

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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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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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

Landers, Ann

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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

Barclay, H.K.

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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

Ward, William A.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Sting

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Seneca

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The