Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Jung, Carl

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

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Keats, John

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Landers, Ann

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

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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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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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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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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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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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Virgil

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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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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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

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich