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

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

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

Heraclitus

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

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

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

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Gesser

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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.

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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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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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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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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 bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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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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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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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.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

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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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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

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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

Seneca