Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Shain, Merle

Best Quotes about Adversity

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Sting

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Johnson

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

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

Horace

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

10.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Schmidt, Walt

14.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

15.

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

Keats, John

16.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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.

21.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

22.

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

Walton, Sam

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

25.

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

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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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

28.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

32.

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''

33.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

34.

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

Qur'an

35.

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

Saadi

36.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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

41.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

45.

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

Hazlitt, William

46.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

47.

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

48.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

49.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.