Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

2.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

3.

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

Horace

4.

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

5.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

10.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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

12.

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

Virgil

13.

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

Horace

14.

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

15.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

16.

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

17.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

18.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Woolf, Virginia

22.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

23.

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

Walton, Sam

24.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

25.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

26.

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

27.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

Jung, Carl

29.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

30.

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

Neal, John

31.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

32.

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

33.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

35.

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

36.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

37.

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

Kempis, Thomas

38.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

39.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

40.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

41.

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

42.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

46.

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

Weltman, Phil

47.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

48.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

49.

Failure is success if we learn from it.