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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bible

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.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zwanzig, Carl

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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 reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

11.

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

12.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

13.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

14.

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

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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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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

17.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

18.

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

Seneca

19.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

20.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

23.

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

Keats, John

24.

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

Ward, William A.

25.

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.

26.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

28.

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

Bennet, Arnold

29.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Aesop

32.

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

33.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

Horace

35.

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.

36.

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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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

38.

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

Gesser

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

40.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

41.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

42.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

43.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

44.

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

Horace

45.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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

47.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

49.

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

50.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance