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

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

Seneca

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Proverb, Maori

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

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Heraclitus

21.

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

Wells, H.G.

22.

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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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

25.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

27.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

29.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Weltman, Phil

31.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

32.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

33.

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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

35.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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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

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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

43.

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

Seneca

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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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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.