Motivational Quotes
Adversity
I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
Best Quotes about Adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Colton, Charles Caleb
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Rogers, James
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, SĀ°ren
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
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Roethke, Theodore
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
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
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
Only entropy comes easy.
Mumford, Lewis
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, Italian
The reward of suffering is experience.
Aeschylus
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.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Proverb, Chinese
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Salk, Lee
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Hemingway, Ernest
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''
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
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
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Holtz, Lou
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Collins, Kitty O'neill
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Propertius, Sextus
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Proverb, Maori
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Pliny The Elder
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Ziglar, Zig
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Devito, Danny
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Wells, H.G.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Benson, Taylor
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Smiles, Samuel
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
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.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Beecher, Henry Ward
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Movie, Apollo 13
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Beecher, Henry Ward
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
Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Russell, Rosalind
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
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
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Alcott, Louisa May
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
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Gallagher, Robert C.
We need tough days to drive us to our knees.
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
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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