Motivational Quotes

Adversity

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

2.

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

Hill, Napoleon

3.

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

Horace

4.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

5.

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

6.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

7.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Bacon, Francis

9.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Aesop

13.

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

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

16.

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

17.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

18.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

19.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

21.

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

Shain, Merle

22.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

23.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

24.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

25.

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

Johnson

26.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

27.

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''

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

Jung, Carl

32.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

33.

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

34.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

35.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

36.

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

37.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

38.

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

Ward, William A.

39.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

40.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

41.

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

42.

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

Qur'an

43.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

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

Barclay, H.K.

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

47.

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

48.

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

Seneca

49.

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

50.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald