Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Seneca

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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)

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

Schwab, Charles M.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

10.

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

11.

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

Benson, Taylor

12.

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

Devito, Danny

13.

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

14.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

15.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

16.

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

17.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

18.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

19.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

20.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

21.

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

Bennet, Arnold

22.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

23.

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

Barclay, H.K.

25.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

26.

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

Keats, John

27.

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

Woolf, Virginia

28.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

30.

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

31.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

32.

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

33.

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

Horace

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

36.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

37.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

38.

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.

France, Anatole

39.

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

Schmidt, Walt

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

46.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

47.

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

48.

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

Wells, H.G.

49.

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

50.

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

Jung, Carl