Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Horace

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

Virgil

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

14.

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

15.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Johnson

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

21.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

Ziglar, Zig

23.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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

Gesser

25.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

27.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

28.

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''

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

32.

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

Wells, H.G.

33.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

34.

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

Russell, Rosalind

35.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

36.

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

37.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Bible

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

Holtz, Lou

41.

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

42.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

45.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Jung, Carl

47.

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)

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

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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.

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

Zwanzig, Carl