Motivational Quotes

Adversity

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

- Coppola, Francis Ford

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Rogers, James

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

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

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

Horace

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Alcott, Louisa May

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

13.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

15.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

16.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

18.

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

19.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

20.

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

21.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

25.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

27.

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

28.

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

Keats, John

29.

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

Qur'an

30.

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

Ziglar, Zig

31.

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

32.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

33.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

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

36.

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

James, William

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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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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.

40.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

41.

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

Neal, John

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

43.

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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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

45.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

46.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

47.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

49.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Johnson