Motivational Quotes

Adversity

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Seneca

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Heraclitus

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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

11.

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

12.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

13.

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

Bible

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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.

16.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

17.

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

18.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

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''

20.

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

Saadi

21.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

22.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

24.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

25.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

33.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

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

Rogers, James

35.

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

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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

37.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

38.

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

39.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

43.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

44.

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

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

48.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

49.

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

Russell, Rosalind