Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

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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.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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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 a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Virgil

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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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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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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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

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

Wells, H.G.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

Movie, Apollo 13