Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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)

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Schweitzer, Albert

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

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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

11.

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.

12.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

13.

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

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

16.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

17.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

18.

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

Heraclitus

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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)

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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.

23.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

24.

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

25.

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

Bennet, Arnold

26.

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

Horace

27.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

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

29.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

30.

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

Proverb, Maori

31.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

32.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

33.

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

34.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

35.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

40.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

41.

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

Rogers, James

42.

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

Kempis, Thomas

43.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

48.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

49.

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

Sting

50.

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

Johnson, Samuel