Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Warren, Earl

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gesser

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Ward, William A.

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Devito, Danny

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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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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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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 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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace