Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

- Qur'an

Best Quotes about Adversity

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''

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

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

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

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

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

Weltman, Phil

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Talmud, The

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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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

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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

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

Devito, Danny

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Walton, Sam

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

Rogers, James

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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