Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Seneca

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''

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

Horace

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Gesser

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Heraclitus

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

10.

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

11.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

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

13.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

14.

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)

15.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

16.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

17.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

18.

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

19.

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

Neal, John

20.

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

21.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

22.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

23.

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

24.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

25.

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

26.

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

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

28.

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.

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

30.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

35.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Hazlitt, William

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

38.

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

39.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

40.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

41.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

42.

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

43.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

45.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

46.

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

Shain, Merle

47.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

48.

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

Johnson

49.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.