Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Propertius, Sextus

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Bible

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

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

Wells, H.G.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

10.

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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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

14.

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

Qur'an

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

22.

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

Devito, Danny

23.

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

Landers, Ann

24.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

25.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

26.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

27.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

32.

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

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

35.

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.

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

Aesop

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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

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

Horace

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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

40.

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

Schmidt, Walt

41.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

42.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

43.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

44.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

45.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

James, William

47.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

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

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

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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