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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
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

2.
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

3.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Sayers, Dorothy L.

4.
Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

6.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine, St.

7.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Hemingway, Ernest

8.
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

9.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Collins, Kitty O'neill

10.
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Lawrence, Thomas E.

11.
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)

12.
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Homer

13.
You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
Virgil

14.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Hill, Napoleon

15.
The proof of gold is fire...
Franklin, Benjamin

16.
When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Barclay, H.K.

17.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

18.
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
Ward, William A.

19.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

20.
A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
Westcott, Edward Noyes

21.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.
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.

23.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Roethke, Theodore

24.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Keats, John

25.
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Salk, Lee

26.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

27.
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.
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

29.
Only entropy comes easy.
Mumford, Lewis

30.
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

31.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Byron, Lord

32.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Jung, Carl

33.
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

34.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

35.
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

36.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Schmidt, Walt

37.
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

38.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Kennedy, Rose F.

39.
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''

40.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Bennet, Arnold

41.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

42.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Colton, Charles Caleb

43.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Proverb, Chinese

44.
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

45.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
Bryant, William C.

46.
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Scott, Sir Walter

47.
Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]
Bible

48.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Russell, Rosalind

49.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.
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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