Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

2.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

3.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

4.

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

5.

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

6.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

7.

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

8.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

9.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

10.

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

11.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

14.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

15.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

16.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

17.

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

Neal, John

18.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

19.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

20.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

26.

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

27.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

28.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

29.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

30.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

34.

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

35.

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

Keats, John

36.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

37.

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

Walton, Sam

38.

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

39.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

Ziglar, Zig

41.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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