Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Johnson

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

Bible

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Rogers, James

10.

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

Virgil

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

18.

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

19.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

20.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

22.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

24.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

25.

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

Landers, Ann

27.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

28.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

29.

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)

30.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

32.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

33.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

34.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

35.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

36.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

37.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

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

Devito, Danny

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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

40.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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

48.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

49.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Hill, Napoleon