Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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

Horace

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

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

10.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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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

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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hazlitt, William

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Seneca

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