Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Virgil

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

Brown, Les

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Ziglar, Zig

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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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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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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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holtz, Lou

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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.