Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Kennedy, Rose F.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

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

Bible

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

Woolf, Virginia

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Sheehan, George

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

10.

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

11.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

16.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

17.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

18.

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

19.

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

21.

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

Holtz, Lou

22.

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

23.

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

24.

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

Schmidt, Walt

25.

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

26.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

27.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

30.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

32.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

33.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

37.

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

38.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

39.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

41.

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

42.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

43.

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

44.

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

Homer

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Saadi

48.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

49.

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

Devito, Danny

50.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald