Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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.

Best Quotes about Adversity

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

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

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

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

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

10.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

11.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

18.

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.

19.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

20.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

21.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

23.

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

Horace

24.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

25.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

26.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

27.

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

Gesser

28.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

29.

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

30.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

32.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

33.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

34.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

35.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

36.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

37.

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

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.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

42.

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

Devito, Danny

43.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

44.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

45.

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

Holtz, Lou

46.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

47.

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

Walton, Sam

48.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

49.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

50.

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

Weltman, Phil

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