Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Talmud, The

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

Hill, Napoleon

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Devito, Danny

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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Virgil

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

Johnson

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Homer

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Heraclitus

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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

Warren, Earl

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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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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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