Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Qur'an

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

10.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Rogers, James

14.

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.

15.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

16.

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

17.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

18.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

19.

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

Virgil

20.

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''

21.

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

22.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Gesser

26.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

29.

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

30.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

31.

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

Devito, Danny

32.

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

33.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

34.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

35.

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

Sting

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

38.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

39.

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

Bennet, Arnold

40.

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.

41.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

42.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

43.

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

44.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

45.

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

Horace

46.

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

Horace

47.

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

Heraclitus

48.

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

Landers, Ann

49.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

50.

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.