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

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

Rogers, James

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Sheehan, George

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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''

10.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

11.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

12.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Sting

14.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

Shain, Merle

17.

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.

18.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

19.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

20.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

21.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

22.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

24.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

25.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

26.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

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

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

30.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

31.

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

Horace

32.

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

33.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

38.

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

Woolf, Virginia

39.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

43.

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

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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.

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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

46.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

47.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

48.

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

Gesser

49.

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

50.

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

Devito, Danny