Motivational Quotes

Adversity

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Adversity

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

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

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Saadi

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

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Gesser

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

Benson, Taylor

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

Bacon, Francis

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Walton, Sam

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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek