Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

- Alcott, Louisa May

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Neal, John

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

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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, S°ren

10.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

11.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

12.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

14.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

15.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.

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

17.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

18.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

19.

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

Walton, Sam

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

23.

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

Johnson

24.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

25.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

26.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

31.

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

Sting

32.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

33.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

34.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

35.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

37.

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.

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

40.

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

41.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

42.

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

Gesser

43.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

44.

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.

Jackson, Janet

45.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

46.

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.

47.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

48.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

49.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.