Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Warren, Earl

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Talmud, The

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Qur'an

10.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

11.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

16.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

17.

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

18.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

19.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

20.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

23.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

24.

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)

25.

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

26.

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

Shain, Merle

27.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

29.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

31.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

32.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

33.

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

Holtz, Lou

34.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

35.

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

Barclay, H.K.

36.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

37.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

38.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

39.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

40.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

41.

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

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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.

43.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

44.

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''

45.

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

46.

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.

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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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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

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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