Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Ward, William A.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Ziglar, Zig

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Virgil

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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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

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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 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

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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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

Schmidt, Walt

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Horace

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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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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

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

Heraclitus

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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