Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Things were bad but now they are OK.

- Seymour, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bible

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

10.

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

11.

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

Landers, Ann

12.

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

13.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

14.

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

Devito, Danny

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

17.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

18.

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

Shain, Merle

19.

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

20.

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

Sheehan, George

21.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

22.

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.

23.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

24.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

28.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

29.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

30.

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

Propertius, Sextus

31.

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

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

33.

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''

34.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

35.

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

36.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

37.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

38.

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

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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

40.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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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

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

44.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

45.

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

46.

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

Walton, Sam

47.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William