Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

2.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

3.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

4.

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

5.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

6.

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

Landers, Ann

7.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

8.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

9.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

10.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

14.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

15.

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.

16.

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

Saadi

17.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

18.

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

Horace

19.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

20.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

22.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

Johnson

24.

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

Rogers, James

25.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

26.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

28.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

29.

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

30.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

34.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Maori

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

41.

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.

42.

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

Propertius, Sextus

43.

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

Kempis, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

46.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

47.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

48.

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

49.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

50.

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