Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

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

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Billings, Josh

13.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

14.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

15.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Neal, John

20.

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

24.

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

25.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

26.

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.

27.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

28.

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.

29.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

30.

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

31.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

34.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

35.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

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

41.

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

Schmidt, Walt

42.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

44.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

45.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

47.

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

Bible

48.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

49.

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

50.

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

Horace