Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

2.

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

Russell, Rosalind

3.

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

Weltman, Phil

4.

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

Heraclitus

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

Ward, William A.

8.

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

Talmud, The

9.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

10.

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

Keats, John

11.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

12.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

13.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

14.

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

Barclay, H.K.

15.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

16.

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

Horace

17.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

19.

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

20.

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

21.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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

23.

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

Ziglar, Zig

24.

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

Horace

25.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

James, William

27.

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

Seneca

28.

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

Sting

29.

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

30.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

31.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

32.

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

33.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

34.

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

35.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

36.

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

37.

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

Brown, Les

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

40.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

41.

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

Benson, Taylor

42.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

43.

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

Propertius, Sextus

44.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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