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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
- Alcott, Louisa May
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

2.
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.

3.
We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

4.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Bacon, Francis

5.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

6.
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

7.
Stumbling is not falling.
Proverb, Portuguese

8.
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

9.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Horace

10.
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

11.
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

12.
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.

13.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Johnson

14.
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

15.
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.

16.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Woolf, Virginia

17.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Proverb, Maori

18.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Hemingway, Ernest

19.
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
Weil, Simone

20.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Russell, Rosalind

21.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]
Bible

22.
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

23.
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Zwanzig, Carl

24.
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

25.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Schweitzer, Albert

26.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Hill, Napoleon

27.
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

28.
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.

29.
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Maltz, Maxwell

30.
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

31.
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, Italian

32.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Forbes, Malcolm S.

33.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Avon

34.
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
Chambers, Oswald

35.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Tagore, Rabindranath

36.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
James, William

37.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Rogers, James

38.
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Horace

39.
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)

40.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Schmidt, Walt

41.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Kapuscinski, Ryszard

42.
Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

43.
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Homer

44.
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

45.
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Gesser

46.
He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

47.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Seneca

48.
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

49.
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.
Leonard, George

50.
Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]
Bible


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