Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

2.

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.

3.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

4.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

5.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

6.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

7.

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

8.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

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

Seneca

10.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

11.

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

12.

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

Gesser

13.

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

Qur'an

14.

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

15.

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

Homer

16.

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

Barclay, H.K.

17.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

21.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

22.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

23.

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

Bible

24.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

26.

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

Johnson

27.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

28.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

29.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

30.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

31.

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.

32.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

33.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

35.

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

36.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

37.

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''

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Horace

40.

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

Bacon, Francis

41.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

42.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

43.

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

Kempis, Thomas

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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