Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Saadi

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

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

Horace

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

Hazlitt, William

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Landers, Ann

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Heraclitus

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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

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

Ward, William A.

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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

Augustine, St.

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

Benson, Taylor

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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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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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Brown, Les

28.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

30.

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

Proverb, Maori

31.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

36.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

40.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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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

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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

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt