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

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

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Seneca

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

Horace

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Virgil

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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

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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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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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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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

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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Horace

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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