Motivational Quotes

Adversity

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

- Kerr, Jean

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Neal, John

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Heraclitus

10.

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

Barclay, H.K.

11.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

13.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

14.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

15.

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

16.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

17.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

18.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

19.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

24.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

25.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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

27.

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.

Post, Laurens Van du

28.

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

29.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

30.

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)

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

35.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

36.

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

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

38.

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

39.

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

Seneca

40.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

42.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

43.

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

James, William

44.

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

Propertius, Sextus

45.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

46.

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

47.

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

Homer

48.

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

49.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

50.

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