Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Barclay, H.K.

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

2.

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

3.

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

4.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

5.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

6.

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

7.

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

8.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

9.

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.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

12.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

Russell, Rosalind

15.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

18.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

19.

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

20.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

24.

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

Proverb, Maori

25.

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

Talmud, The

26.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

27.

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

Shain, Merle

28.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Seneca

31.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

32.

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

33.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

34.

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

35.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

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

Virgil

37.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

38.

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

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

42.

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

43.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

44.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

45.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

46.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold