Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Barclay, H.K.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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

Neal, John

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Horace

12.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

Weltman, Phil

14.

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

Sting

15.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

16.

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

Homer

17.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

18.

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

19.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

20.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

23.

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

Qur'an

24.

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

Holtz, Lou

25.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

28.

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

Kempis, Thomas

29.

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.

30.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Devito, Danny

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

36.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Maori

39.

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.

40.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

41.

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

42.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

43.

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

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

Horace

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

48.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

49.

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

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard