Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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''

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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''

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

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

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

10.

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

Homer

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hazlitt, William

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.

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

Virgil

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

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

Horace

19.

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

20.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

24.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

25.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

26.

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

Johnson

27.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

28.

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

29.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

31.

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.

32.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

33.

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

Gesser

34.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

35.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

37.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

39.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

40.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

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

Schmidt, Walt

42.

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.

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

45.

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

Walton, Sam

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

49.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

50.

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

Qur'an