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

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Proverb, Maori

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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

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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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

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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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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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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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

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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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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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

Warren, Earl

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Qur'an