Quotes about Adversity
Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you try to extinguish the light of one who shines like the sun you will get burned.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When life's great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.
— Paulo Coelho
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don't expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.
— Joel Osteen