Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Sting

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Neal, John

10.

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

11.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

12.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

13.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

14.

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

15.

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

Rogers, James

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

18.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

21.

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''

22.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

23.

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

Sheehan, George

24.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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)

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

30.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

33.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

36.

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

Johnson

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

42.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

43.

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

Hazlitt, William

44.

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.

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.

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

Brown, Les

47.

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

Heraclitus

48.

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

49.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

50.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance