Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Bible

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

12.

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

Neal, John

13.

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

14.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

21.

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

22.

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

Russell, Rosalind

23.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

24.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

25.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Ward, William A.

27.

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

Seneca

28.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Homer

32.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

33.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

38.

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

Saadi

39.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Keats, John

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon