Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

2.

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.

3.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

4.

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

Weltman, Phil

5.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

6.

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

7.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

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

Sting

14.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

15.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

19.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

20.

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

21.

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

Schmidt, Walt

22.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

23.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

24.

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

Johnson

25.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

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

Rogers, James

31.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

Barclay, H.K.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

44.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

45.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

50.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo