Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Chinese

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

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

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Qur'an

10.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Warren, Earl

12.

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

Walton, Sam

13.

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

Russell, Rosalind

14.

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

15.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Bennet, Arnold

18.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

24.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

26.

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

27.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

28.

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

Neal, John

29.

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

Ziglar, Zig

30.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

31.

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.

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

35.

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

36.

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

Weltman, Phil

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Holtz, Lou

41.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

42.

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

43.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

44.

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

45.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

47.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

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

Gallagher, Robert C.