Motivational Quotes

Adversity

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

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

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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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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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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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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Virgil

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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 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

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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

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Devito, Danny

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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

Bible

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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

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel