Motivational Quotes

Adversity

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Adversity

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

10.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

11.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

12.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

14.

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

Horace

15.

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

16.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

17.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

21.

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

Shain, Merle

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

27.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

28.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

29.

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

30.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

31.

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

Landers, Ann

32.

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.

33.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

34.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

35.

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

36.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

37.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

38.

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

Homer

39.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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.

41.

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

Heraclitus

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

44.

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

Sheehan, George

45.

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

Virgil

46.

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

47.

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''

48.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

49.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

50.

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