Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

- Cady, Emilie

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

2.

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

3.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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

6.

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

Weltman, Phil

7.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

8.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

9.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

10.

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

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

Woolf, Virginia

14.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

15.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

16.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

18.

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.

19.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

20.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

21.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

Horace

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

27.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

28.

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

Qur'an

29.

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

Devito, Danny

30.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

31.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

32.

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

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

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

Holtz, Lou

36.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

37.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

39.

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

Jung, Carl

40.

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

Johnson

41.

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''

42.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

43.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

44.

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

Augustine, St.

45.

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