Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Adversity

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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

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

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

Shain, Merle

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

10.

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

11.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

12.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

16.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

17.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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.

20.

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

Saadi

21.

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

Devito, Danny

22.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

23.

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

Sheehan, George

24.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

25.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

26.

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

27.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

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.

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

33.

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

34.

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

35.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

37.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

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

39.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

40.

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

Seneca

41.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

42.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

44.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

45.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

47.

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

48.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

50.

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