Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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''

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

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Benson, Taylor

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

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

16.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

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

Propertius, Sextus

24.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

25.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

26.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

27.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

28.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

29.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

30.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

31.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

38.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

39.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

40.

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

Proverb, Maori

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

42.

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

Barclay, H.K.

43.

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

44.

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

Talmud, The

45.

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

Bacon, Francis

46.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

47.

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''

48.

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

Homer

49.

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

Saadi

50.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og