Motivational Quotes

Adversity

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Johnson

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Bennet, Arnold

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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

Augustine, St.

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

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

13.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

15.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

16.

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Seneca

19.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Ward, William A.

23.

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

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

25.

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

26.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

27.

It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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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.

29.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

30.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

31.

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

Gesser

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

35.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

36.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

37.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

42.

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

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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

44.

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

Woolf, Virginia

45.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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