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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Augustine, St.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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

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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Warren, Earl

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Horace

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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Landers, Ann

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

Barclay, H.K.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jung, Carl

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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

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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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