Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Bacon, Francis

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

11.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

12.

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

Homer

13.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

14.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

16.

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

Weltman, Phil

17.

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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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.

19.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Seneca

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

23.

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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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

25.

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

26.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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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

28.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

30.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

33.

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

34.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

35.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

38.

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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

40.

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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

42.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

44.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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

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

Horace

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean