Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

2.

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

3.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

4.

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

5.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

6.

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

7.

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

Virgil

8.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

9.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

11.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

12.

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

13.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

14.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

15.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

16.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

17.

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

Augustine, St.

18.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

19.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

20.

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

21.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

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

24.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

26.

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

James, William

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Homer

29.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

30.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

31.

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

32.

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

Horace

33.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

34.

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

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

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

38.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

40.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

41.

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.

42.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

48.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

49.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

50.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.