Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Proverb, Maori

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Saadi

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Talmud, The

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Maori

12.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

13.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Walton, Sam

18.

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

19.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

20.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

21.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Sheehan, George

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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

Barclay, H.K.

30.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

31.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

32.

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

Schmidt, Walt

33.

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

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Horace

35.

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

Augustine, St.

36.

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

James, William

37.

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

38.

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

Johnson

39.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

40.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

41.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

42.

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

43.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

44.

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

Holtz, Lou

45.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

47.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

48.

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

Sting

49.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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