Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Bible

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

James, William

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

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

Neal, John

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

Brown, Les

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

10.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

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

13.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

15.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

16.

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

Zwanzig, Carl

17.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

18.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

19.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

22.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

23.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

24.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Sheehan, George

26.

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

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

29.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

34.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

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

37.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

45.

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

46.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

47.

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

Qur'an

48.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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