Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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

Bennet, Arnold

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Horace

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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.

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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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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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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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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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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.

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Warren, Earl

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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