Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

2.

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

3.

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''

4.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

5.

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

6.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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.

14.

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

Horace

15.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

16.

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

Shain, Merle

17.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

19.

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

20.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

25.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

26.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

28.

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

29.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

32.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

33.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

34.

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

35.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

36.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

37.

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

Hazlitt, William

38.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

39.

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

Qur'an

40.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

41.

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

Neal, John

42.

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

Kempis, Thomas

43.

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

Homer

44.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

45.

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

46.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

47.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

48.

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

Russell, Rosalind

49.

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