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

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

Virgil

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Sting

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Augustine, St.

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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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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

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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

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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Jung, Carl

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

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

Bible

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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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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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

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

Homer

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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.

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Horace

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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)

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Gesser

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bennet, Arnold

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Peale, Norman Vincent