Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Aesop

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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

10.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

11.

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

Advisor, Heartland

12.

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

Kempis, Thomas

13.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

15.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

16.

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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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

20.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Landers, Ann

23.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Johnson

27.

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

28.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

29.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

30.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

31.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

32.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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

36.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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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''

38.

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

39.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

40.

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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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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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

44.

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

45.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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

Benson, Taylor

48.

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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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.

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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