Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Things were bad but now they are OK.

- Seymour, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Horace

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

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

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

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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

Horace

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Gesser

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

Seneca

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

Keats, John

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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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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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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Bible

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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''

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Wells, H.G.

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.