Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Seneca

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

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''

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

Saadi

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

Augustine, St.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Horace

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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 burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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

Aesop

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Hazlitt, William

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

Devito, Danny

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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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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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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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Landers, Ann