Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bennet, Arnold

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

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

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

10.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

11.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

12.

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

13.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

15.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

16.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

17.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.

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

Rogers, James

19.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

Schmidt, Walt

21.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

22.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

23.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

24.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

25.

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

26.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

27.

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

28.

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

Woolf, Virginia

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

33.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

34.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

35.

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

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

38.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

39.

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

Horace

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.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

42.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

43.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

47.

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

Homer

48.

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

Gesser

49.

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

50.

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