Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Aesop

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Homer

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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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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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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Horace

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brown, Les

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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.

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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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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes