Motivational Quotes

Adversity

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

2.

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

James, William

3.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

4.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

5.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

6.

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

7.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

8.

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

Benson, Taylor

9.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

10.

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

11.

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

Schmidt, Walt

12.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

13.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

14.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

15.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

16.

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

17.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

18.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

19.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

21.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

22.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

23.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

24.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

25.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

26.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

27.

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

Weltman, Phil

28.

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

Neal, John

29.

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

Proverb, Maori

30.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

31.

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''

32.

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

33.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

34.

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

Qur'an

35.

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

36.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

37.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

38.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

39.

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

Russell, Rosalind

40.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

44.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

45.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

46.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

47.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

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

Sting

50.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald