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

1.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

2.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

3.

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

Ward, William A.

4.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

5.

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

Johnson

6.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

7.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

8.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

9.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

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.

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

20.

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

21.

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

22.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

23.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

24.

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

Gesser

25.

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

26.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

28.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Saadi

34.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

36.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

40.

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)

41.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

42.

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

43.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

44.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

45.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

46.

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

Kempis, Thomas

47.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius