Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

11.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

12.

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

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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

14.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

15.

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

16.

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

Barclay, H.K.

17.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

18.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

19.

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

20.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

21.

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

Walton, Sam

22.

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

23.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

24.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

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

Saadi

27.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

28.

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

Landers, Ann

29.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

31.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

32.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

33.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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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

35.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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

Schmidt, Walt

37.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Benson, Taylor

40.

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.

41.

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

Sheehan, George

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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

43.

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.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

45.

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

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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

50.

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

Devito, Danny