Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horace

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

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

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Talmud, The

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

Seneca

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

Devito, Danny

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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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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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 would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Warren, Earl

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Aesop

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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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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.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Benson, Taylor

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt