Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Lawrence, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Adversity

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Kempis, Thomas

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

12.

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

Qur'an

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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

14.

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

15.

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

Virgil

16.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

17.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

19.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

20.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

21.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

22.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

24.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

25.

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

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

32.

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

33.

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

Woolf, Virginia

34.

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

Neal, John

35.

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

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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.

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

38.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Horace

41.

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

Gesser

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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

43.

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

44.

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

Warren, Earl

45.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

46.

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

Walton, Sam

47.

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

Holtz, Lou

48.

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori