Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Adversity

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Barclay, H.K.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

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

Neal, John

10.

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.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

13.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

17.

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

Virgil

18.

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

19.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

20.

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

21.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

23.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

24.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

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

Rogers, James

26.

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

27.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

29.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

30.

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

31.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

32.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

33.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

34.

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

35.

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

Seneca

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

40.

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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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

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

43.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

44.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

45.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

46.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hazlitt, William

48.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques