Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Only entropy comes easy.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

Hoffman, Dustin

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Horace

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

10.

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

11.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Sting

15.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Kempis, Thomas

17.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

19.

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

Qur'an

20.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

21.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

22.

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

23.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

24.

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

25.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

27.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

28.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

30.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

31.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

35.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

36.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

37.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

38.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

41.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

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

Benson, Taylor

43.

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

44.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Devito, Danny

47.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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

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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

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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