Motivational Quotes

Adversity

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

- Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

2.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

3.

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)

4.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

5.

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

Seneca

6.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

7.

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

Woolf, Virginia

8.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

9.

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.

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

11.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

12.

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

Benson, Taylor

15.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

16.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

18.

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

Heraclitus

19.

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

20.

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

Saadi

21.

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

Russell, Rosalind

22.

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

23.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

24.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

25.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

26.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

27.

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

28.

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

29.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

31.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

32.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

33.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

34.

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

Walton, Sam

35.

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

Virgil

36.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

37.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

38.

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

Wells, H.G.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

43.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

44.

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

Neal, John

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

50.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo