Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Gesser

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Johnson

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Maori

19.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

20.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

22.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

23.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

30.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

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

Seneca

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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

33.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

36.

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

Ziglar, Zig

37.

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

Kempis, Thomas

38.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

39.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

45.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

46.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

47.

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.

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

49.

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

Schmidt, Walt

50.

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)