Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

- Coppola, Francis Ford

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

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

2.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

3.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

4.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

5.

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

6.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

7.

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

Hill, Napoleon

8.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

9.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

13.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

14.

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

15.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

16.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

18.

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

Jung, Carl

19.

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

Benson, Taylor

20.

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

21.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

23.

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)

24.

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

Seneca

25.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

27.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Gesser

30.

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

Neal, John

31.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

32.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

35.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

36.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

37.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

38.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

39.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

44.

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

45.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

46.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

47.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

48.

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

Barclay, H.K.

49.

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

Devito, Danny

50.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry