Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Adversity

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sting

10.

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

Heraclitus

11.

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

12.

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

Homer

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

18.

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

19.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

20.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

21.

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

22.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

24.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

25.

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.

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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

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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

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

32.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

33.

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

Aesop

34.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

35.

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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.

37.

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

Propertius, Sextus

38.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

39.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

40.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

41.

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

42.

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

Rogers, James

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Brown, Les

47.

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

Ziglar, Zig

48.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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