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

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

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

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

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

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Zwanzig, Carl

10.

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

11.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

12.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

13.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

16.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

17.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

18.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

19.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

20.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

22.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

23.

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

24.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

25.

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

26.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

28.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

29.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

30.

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

32.

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

Horace

33.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

34.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

35.

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

39.

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

40.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

41.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

44.

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

45.

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

46.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny