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

1.

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

Kempis, Thomas

2.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

3.

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

Sheehan, George

4.

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

5.

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

Neal, John

6.

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

Saadi

7.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

8.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

9.

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

Bennet, Arnold

10.

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

11.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

12.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

13.

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

14.

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

Walton, Sam

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

22.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

23.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

24.

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

25.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

26.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

27.

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

Virgil

28.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

29.

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

Jung, Carl

30.

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

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Maori

35.

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)

36.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

37.

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

38.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

39.

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

40.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

41.

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

Keats, John

42.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

43.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

44.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

45.

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

Propertius, Sextus

46.

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

47.

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

Sting

48.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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.