Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Best Quotes about Adversity

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

10.

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

11.

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

Wells, H.G.

12.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

13.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

18.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

19.

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

20.

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

22.

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

23.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

24.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

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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''

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

32.

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

Gesser

33.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

36.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

38.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

James, William

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

42.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

Hazlitt, William

44.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Weltman, Phil

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

49.

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

Neal, John

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James