Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Wells, H.G.

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

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Schmidt, Walt

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

14.

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

15.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

16.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

17.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

18.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

19.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

20.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

21.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

22.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

24.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

25.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

31.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

32.

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

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

35.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

36.

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

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

40.

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

Bible

41.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

43.

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

44.

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

45.

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

46.

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

47.

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

Barclay, H.K.

48.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

49.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

50.

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

Horace