Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bible

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Neal, John

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

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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

10.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

11.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

12.

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

Sheehan, George

13.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

16.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

17.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

18.

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

19.

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

Holtz, Lou

20.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

21.

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

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

26.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

27.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

28.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

29.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

30.

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

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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

32.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

34.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

35.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

36.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

37.

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

Homer

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

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

Seneca

41.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

42.

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

Gesser

43.

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

Qur'an

44.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

45.

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

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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

47.

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

Heraclitus

48.

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

Virgil

49.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

50.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah