Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Proverb, Chinese

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Schweitzer, Albert

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

10.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

12.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

13.

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

14.

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

15.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Seneca

19.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

20.

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

21.

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

Sheehan, George

22.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

23.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

24.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

25.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

30.

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

Schmidt, Walt

31.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

32.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

33.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

34.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

35.

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

Saadi

36.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

37.

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

Augustine, St.

38.

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

Heraclitus

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

40.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

Shain, Merle

43.

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

44.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Sting

48.

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

Virgil

49.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

50.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean