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

Best Quotes about Adversity
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
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.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Landers, Ann
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Tagore, Rabindranath
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Mandino, Og
Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
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
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
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Bacon, Francis
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
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.
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
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Smiles, Samuel
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
Talmud, The
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
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Colton, Charles Caleb
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Hill, Napoleon
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.
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Brown, Les
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Grant, Hanmer Parsons
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
You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
Virgil
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Horace
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
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Proverb, Chinese
Stumbling is not falling.
Proverb, Portuguese
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
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Proverb, Italian
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine, St.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Schmidt, Walt
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
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Propertius, Sextus
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Zwanzig, Carl
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
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
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Seneca
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
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Beecher, Henry Ward
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Gibran, Kahlil
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Coppola, Francis Ford
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
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Fielding, Henry
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