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

Best Quotes about Adversity
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Aurelius, Marcus
The reward of suffering is experience.
Aeschylus
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Pliny The Elder
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Johnson, Samuel
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
Ward, William A.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
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
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Peale, Norman Vincent
They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]
Bible
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
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Beecher, Henry Ward
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
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Casey, M Kathleen
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Hoffman, Dustin
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Lawrence, Thomas E.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''
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
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Beecher, Henry Ward
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Alcott, Louisa May
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Seneca
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Russell, Rosalind
Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, Italian
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
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Movie, Apollo 13
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Avon
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Parker, Dorothy
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Fielding, Henry
When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Barclay, H.K.
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
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Dune, Frank Herbert
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Woolf, Virginia
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Neal, John
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
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Kennedy, Rose F.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Ash, Mary Kay
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.
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
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Holtz, Lou
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Grant, Hanmer Parsons
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
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
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