Motivational Quotes

Adversity

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

- Westcott, Edward Noyes

Best Quotes about Adversity

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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

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.

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

Shain, Merle

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

10.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

11.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

12.

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

13.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

14.

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

15.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

18.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

26.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

27.

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.

28.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

32.

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''

33.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

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

Benson, Taylor

35.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

36.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

37.

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

Johnson

38.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

39.

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

Heraclitus

40.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

41.

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

42.

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

Seneca

43.

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

44.

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

45.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

46.

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

Horace

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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

48.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

49.

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

50.

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