Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Horace

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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Seneca

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

Jung, Carl

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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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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Homer

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Devito, Danny

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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

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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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

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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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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

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

Seneca

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Keats, John

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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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