Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

2.

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

3.

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

Barclay, H.K.

4.

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

5.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

7.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

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.

9.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

10.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

12.

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

Russell, Rosalind

13.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

14.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

19.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

20.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

21.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

22.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

23.

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

Ward, William A.

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

Walton, Sam

27.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

29.

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

30.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

31.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

32.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Homer

35.

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

36.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

37.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

38.

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

39.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

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

41.

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

Talmud, The

42.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

43.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

44.

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)

45.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

46.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

47.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

48.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

49.

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.

50.

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.