Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

- Havner, Vance

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

2.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

3.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

4.

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

Benson, Taylor

5.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

6.

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

7.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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.

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

Sheehan, George

10.

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.

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Devito, Danny

13.

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

Woolf, Virginia

14.

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.

15.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

16.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

17.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Kempis, Thomas

21.

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

Proverb, Maori

22.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

23.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

26.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

27.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

28.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

29.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

30.

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

Neal, John

31.

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

Saadi

32.

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

33.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

34.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

35.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

36.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

37.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

38.

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

39.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

40.

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

Horace

41.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

42.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

43.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

44.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

45.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

46.

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

47.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

48.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

49.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

50.

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

Russell, Rosalind