Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Sting

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.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

10.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

14.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

16.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

17.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

18.

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

Rogers, James

19.

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

Propertius, Sextus

20.

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

21.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

22.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

23.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

24.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

25.

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

26.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

32.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

33.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

34.

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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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

36.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

37.

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

Seneca

38.

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

43.

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

44.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

45.

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''

46.

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

47.

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

Horace

48.

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

Woolf, Virginia

49.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

50.

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