Motivational Quotes

Adversity

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Sheehan, George

5.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

6.

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

Homer

7.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

9.

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

12.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

14.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

17.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

18.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

19.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

20.

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

Bacon, Francis

21.

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.

22.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Holtz, Lou

26.

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

Seneca

27.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

28.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

29.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

30.

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.

31.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

32.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

33.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.

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

Bible

35.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

36.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

37.

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''

38.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

40.

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

Keats, John

41.

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

42.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

43.

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

44.

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

Gesser

45.

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