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

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

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

Horace

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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

Qur'an

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Seneca

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Aesop

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

30.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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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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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 your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

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

Heraclitus

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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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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Seneca

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Bible

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington