Motivational Quotes

Adversity

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

- Collins, Kitty O'neill

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Bible

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

Augustine, St.

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

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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

Bible

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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.

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

Shain, Merle

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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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

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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

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

Qur'an

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sheehan, George

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

James, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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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