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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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)

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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

Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Weltman, Phil

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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.

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Augustine, St.

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Saadi

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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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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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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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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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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

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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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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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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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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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.