Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

2.

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

3.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

7.

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.

8.

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

Hazlitt, William

9.

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.

10.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

11.

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

Shain, Merle

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

15.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

20.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

21.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

22.

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

Kempis, Thomas

23.

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

24.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

25.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

26.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

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

28.

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''

29.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

Ward, William A.

32.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

33.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

34.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

38.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

39.

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

Keats, John

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

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

Schmidt, Walt

42.

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

Barclay, H.K.

43.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

44.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

45.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

46.

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

Sting

47.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

48.

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

Weltman, Phil

49.

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

50.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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