Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

Seneca

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Landers, Ann

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

Bennet, Arnold

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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Heraclitus

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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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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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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.

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Holtz, Lou

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.