Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Augustine, St.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

10.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

14.

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

Sheehan, George

15.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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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

17.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

18.

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

19.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

20.

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

Gesser

21.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

25.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

26.

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

27.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

28.

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

29.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

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

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

Russell, Rosalind

33.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

34.

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

Homer

35.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Seneca

38.

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

39.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

41.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

42.

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

Bennet, Arnold

43.

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

Saadi

44.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

45.

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

Billings, Josh

46.

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

47.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

48.

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

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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

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