Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Sting

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Devito, Danny

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

James, William

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

Zwanzig, Carl

10.

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

11.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Barclay, H.K.

14.

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

15.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

16.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

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

Horace

18.

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

20.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

21.

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

22.

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

Woolf, Virginia

23.

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

Seneca

24.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

25.

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

26.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

27.

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

Horace

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

30.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

31.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

32.

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

Weltman, Phil

33.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

34.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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

37.

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

38.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

39.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

40.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

44.

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

Schmidt, Walt

45.

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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.

48.

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

49.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Brown, Les