Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Adversity

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Kempis, Thomas

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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

Woolf, Virginia

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

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

11.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

13.

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

Horace

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

17.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

23.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

24.

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

25.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

26.

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

Virgil

27.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

28.

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

Warren, Earl

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

Seneca

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

32.

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

Horace

33.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

38.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

41.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Seneca

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

45.

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

Russell, Rosalind

46.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

48.

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

Benson, Taylor

49.

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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop