Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

10.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

11.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Kempis, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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

Walton, Sam

18.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

19.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

20.

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

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

25.

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

Heraclitus

26.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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.

28.

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

29.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

30.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

31.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

33.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

34.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

35.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

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

37.

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

Sting

38.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

39.

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

40.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

41.

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

Keats, John

42.

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

43.

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

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

47.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

48.

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

Qur'an

49.

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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario