Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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 path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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

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

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

10.

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

Johnson

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

14.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

16.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

17.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

18.

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

Gesser

19.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

20.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

21.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

22.

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

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

Shain, Merle

24.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

25.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

26.

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

27.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

29.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

35.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

36.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

37.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

38.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

39.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

40.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

43.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

44.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

45.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

46.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

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