Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Movie, Apollo 13

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Holtz, Lou

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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

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

Proverb, Maori

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

Saadi

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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

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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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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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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Seneca

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Horace

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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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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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.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

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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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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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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Ward, William A.

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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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