Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Adversity

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

Hill, Napoleon

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

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''

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Keats, John

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

Russell, Rosalind

12.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

13.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

14.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

15.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

17.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

22.

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

Neal, John

23.

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

Billings, Josh

24.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

25.

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

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Gesser

30.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

31.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

35.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Barclay, H.K.

37.

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

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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

39.

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

Sheehan, George

40.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

44.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Sting

48.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.