Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Horace

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

Aesop

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

Zwanzig, Carl

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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

Weltman, Phil

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

10.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

23.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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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.

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Propertius, Sextus

32.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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

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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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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Benson, Taylor

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Virgil

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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

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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

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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