Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Neal, John

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Russell, Rosalind

5.

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

Bible

6.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

7.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

8.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

Saadi

14.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

15.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

20.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

21.

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

Propertius, Sextus

22.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

23.

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

24.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Virgil

27.

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

28.

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

Neal, John

29.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

30.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

35.

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

Schmidt, Walt

36.

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

37.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

38.

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

Augustine, St.

39.

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)

40.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

41.

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

42.

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

Proverb, Maori

43.

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

44.

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

Aesop

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

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

47.

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

Walton, Sam

48.

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

Weltman, Phil

49.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

50.

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