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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

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

Qur'an

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Homer

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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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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

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

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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

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Proverb, Maori

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Rogers, James

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

Horace

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

Heraclitus

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

Weltman, Phil

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich