Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Sting

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Devito, Danny

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

Hoffman, Dustin

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

13.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

15.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

16.

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.

17.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

18.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

20.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

21.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

22.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

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

Heraclitus

24.

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

25.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

26.

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

Homer

27.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

28.

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

Barclay, H.K.

29.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

Walton, Sam

31.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

32.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

33.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

34.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

35.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

38.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Saadi

44.

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

Shain, Merle

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

48.

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

49.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

50.

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