Motivational Quotes

Adversity

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Seneca

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Sting

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

10.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

11.

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

Neal, John

12.

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

Barclay, H.K.

13.

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

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.

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.

16.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

17.

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

18.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

19.

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

20.

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

Homer

21.

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

Aesop

22.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

23.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

24.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

31.

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

32.

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

33.

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

Heraclitus

34.

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

Billings, Josh

35.

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

36.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

42.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

45.

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

Scott, Sir Walter