Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Talmud, The

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

10.

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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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

21.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

23.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

26.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

27.

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.

28.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

30.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

32.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

34.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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.

38.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Johnson

43.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Horace

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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard