Motivational Quotes

Adversity

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

2.

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

3.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

4.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

5.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

6.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

7.

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

Woolf, Virginia

8.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

9.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Qur'an

11.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

12.

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

Warren, Earl

13.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

14.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

15.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

16.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

17.

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

Sting

18.

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

19.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

20.

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''

21.

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

22.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Schmidt, Walt

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

28.

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

Walton, Sam

29.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

31.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

32.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

33.

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

36.

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

Weltman, Phil

37.

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

Sheehan, George

38.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

39.

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

40.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

41.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

42.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

43.

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

44.

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

Heraclitus

45.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

47.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon