Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

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.

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Homer

10.

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

11.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

13.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

14.

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

Aesop

15.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

16.

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

Gesser

17.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

20.

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

21.

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.

22.

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

Shain, Merle

23.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

24.

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

25.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

26.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

30.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

31.

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

Sting

32.

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

Johnson

33.

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

Wells, H.G.

34.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

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

Weltman, Phil

37.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

38.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

39.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

40.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

41.

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

Virgil

42.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Seneca

45.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Horace

48.

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

Horace

49.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.