Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Movie, Apollo 13

Best Quotes about Adversity

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Propertius, Sextus

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Horace

10.

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

11.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

13.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

14.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Warren, Earl

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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

17.

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

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

Barclay, H.K.

20.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

23.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Benson, Taylor

25.

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

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Woolf, Virginia

30.

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

31.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

33.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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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.

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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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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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

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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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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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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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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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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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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

45.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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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.