Best Quotes about Adversity
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
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Casey, M Kathleen
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Ransom, Ralph
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
When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Barclay, H.K.
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.
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
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Warren, Earl
You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
Virgil
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Grant, Hanmer Parsons
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Keats, John
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Forbes, Malcolm S.
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
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Sayers, Dorothy L.
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Collier, Robert
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Beecher, Henry Ward
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.
Leonard, George
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Weltman, Phil
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Jung, Carl
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Avon
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Schmidt, Walt
It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.
Seligman, Martin E. P.
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
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Horace
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
Talmud, The
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
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Stumbling is not falling.
Proverb, Portuguese
There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.
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
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Devito, Danny
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Parker, Dorothy
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
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
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
Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
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
If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Billings, Josh
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Salk, Lee
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Maltz, Maxwell
Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Proverb, Chinese
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace
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