Motivational Quotes

Adversity

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

2.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

3.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

9.

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

Horace

10.

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

11.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

12.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

13.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

14.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Weltman, Phil

16.

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

17.

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

Jung, Carl

18.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

19.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

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

21.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

22.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

23.

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

Homer

24.

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

25.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

26.

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.

27.

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

Horace

28.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

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

Wells, H.G.

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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''

32.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

33.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

Sting

36.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

37.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

38.

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

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

41.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

42.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

43.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

44.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

45.

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

46.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

47.

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

48.

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)

49.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

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

Kempis, Thomas