Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Proverb, Maori

Best Quotes about Adversity

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

Johnson

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

10.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

11.

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

12.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

14.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.

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

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

Saadi

18.

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

Sting

19.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

23.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

24.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Heraclitus

28.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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.

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

31.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

32.

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

33.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

34.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

35.

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

36.

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

37.

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

Aesop

38.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Bennet, Arnold

40.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

41.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

42.

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

Horace

43.

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

Brown, Les

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

48.

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

Keats, John

49.

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

Landers, Ann

50.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald