Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What is to give light must endure the burning.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

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

Ziglar, Zig

2.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

3.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

8.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

9.

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

Russell, Rosalind

10.

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

Weltman, Phil

11.

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

Bennet, Arnold

12.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

13.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

14.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

15.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

16.

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

Ward, William A.

17.

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

18.

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

Keats, John

19.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

20.

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

Holtz, Lou

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

24.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

25.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

26.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

27.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

28.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

29.

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

30.

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

31.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

33.

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

Gesser

34.

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

Homer

35.

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

Warren, Earl

36.

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

37.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

38.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

39.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

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

Jung, Carl

44.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

47.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

50.

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