Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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

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

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.

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

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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''

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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

Warren, Earl

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

Gesser

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

Horace

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Benson, Taylor

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole