Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Neal, John

5.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

6.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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.

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

Schmidt, Walt

9.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

14.

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

Propertius, Sextus

15.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

16.

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

17.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

18.

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

Ward, William A.

19.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

22.

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

23.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

24.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

25.

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

26.

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

Shain, Merle

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

29.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

30.

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

Sting

31.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

32.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

33.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

34.

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

35.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

36.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

38.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

39.

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.

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

Rogers, James

41.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

43.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

46.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

47.

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

Bennet, Arnold

48.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

49.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

50.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel