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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.
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Aurelius, Marcus

2.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Kennedy, Rose F.

3.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

4.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Peale, Norman Vincent

5.
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

6.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

7.
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

8.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Holtz, Lou

9.
Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

10.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Collier, Robert

11.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Schwab, Charles M.

13.
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Movie, Apollo 13

14.
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.

15.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch

16.
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

17.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Warren, Earl

18.
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

19.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Billings, Josh

20.
He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

21.
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Shain, Merle

23.
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

24.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Beecher, Henry Ward

26.
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

27.
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

28.
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Walton, Sam

29.
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

30.
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

31.
If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

32.
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

33.
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

34.
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

35.
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

36.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Sting

37.
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

38.
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
Adams, Bryan

39.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
James, William

40.
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Lawrence, Thomas E.

41.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Colton, Charles Caleb

42.
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, Italian

43.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Wells, H.G.

44.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Proverb, Maori

45.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Proverb, Chinese

46.
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

47.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Roethke, Theodore

48.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Pliny The Elder

49.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Ziglar, Zig

50.
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them


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