Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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.

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)

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Proverb, Maori

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Virgil

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Seneca

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

Saadi

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

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

Warren, Earl

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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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