Motivational Quotes

Adversity

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

- Salk, Lee

Best Quotes about Adversity

1.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

2.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

3.

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

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4.

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

5.

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.

6.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

7.

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

Billings, Josh

8.

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

9.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Weltman, Phil

12.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

13.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

14.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

17.

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

18.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

19.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

20.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

21.

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

Walton, Sam

22.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

23.

There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

24.

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

Sheehan, George

25.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

26.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

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''

28.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

29.

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

30.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

34.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

35.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Kempis, Thomas

38.

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

39.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

40.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

41.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

42.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

43.

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

44.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

45.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.