Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Benson, Taylor

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

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

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

10.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

11.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

13.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

14.

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)

15.

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

16.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

18.

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

Horace

19.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

20.

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

21.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

22.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

23.

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.

24.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Sheehan, George

26.

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

27.

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

28.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

29.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

30.

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.

31.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

32.

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.

33.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

34.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

35.

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

36.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

37.

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.

38.

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''

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

45.

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

Rogers, James

46.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

47.

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

Johnson, Samuel

48.

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

Hazlitt, William

49.

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

Walton, Sam

50.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.