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

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

Hazlitt, William

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Virgil

10.

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

Homer

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

16.

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

Aesop

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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

18.

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

19.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

21.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Neal, John

28.

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.

29.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

30.

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

Talmud, The

31.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

32.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

33.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

Sting

38.

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

Woolf, Virginia

40.

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

Bible

42.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

43.

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

44.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Chinese

49.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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