Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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.

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.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs 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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Homer

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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 burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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

Ward, William A.

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Bacon, Francis

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.