Motivational Quotes
Adversity
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.
Best Quotes about Adversity
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Walton, Sam
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Maltz, Maxwell
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Devito, Danny
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Woolf, Virginia
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Colton, Charles Caleb
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Avon
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Billings, Josh
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Bacon, Francis
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop
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
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Nixon, Richard M.
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
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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
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
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Parker, Dorothy
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Johnson, Samuel
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth
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
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine, St.
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Horace
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Beecher, Henry Ward
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
Every burden is a blessing.
Schuller, Robert H.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Benson, Taylor
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Richter, Jean Paul
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Gibran, Kahlil
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Keats, John
If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.
Sheehan, George
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Paine, Thomas
The reward of suffering is experience.
Aeschylus
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]
Bible
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca
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
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
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Seneca
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Wells, H.G.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Warren, Earl
A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
Westcott, Edward Noyes
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Collins, Kitty O'neill
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Pike, Albert
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Horace
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