Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

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

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

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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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Sheehan, George

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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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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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

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

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

Holtz, Lou