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

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

Billings, Josh

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ward, William A.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Johnson

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

10.

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

Aesop

11.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

Virgil

14.

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

Qur'an

15.

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

Shain, Merle

16.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

20.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

22.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

23.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

24.

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

25.

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)

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

27.

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

Seneca

28.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

31.

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

32.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

34.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

35.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

36.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

37.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

43.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

44.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

46.

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

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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

48.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

49.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb