Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every silver lining has a cloud.

- Avon

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

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)

2.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

3.

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

4.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

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

6.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

7.

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

8.

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

Brown, Les

9.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

10.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

11.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

12.

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

13.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

14.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

15.

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

16.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Landers, Ann

18.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

19.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

20.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

21.

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

Gesser

22.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

23.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

24.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

25.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

26.

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

27.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

28.

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

29.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

30.

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

Augustine, St.

31.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

34.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

35.

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

36.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

Ziglar, Zig

44.

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

Ward, William A.

45.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

46.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

47.

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

48.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

50.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam