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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Movie, Apollo 13

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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.

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

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

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

Seneca

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Seneca

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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 depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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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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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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

Aesop

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

Barclay, H.K.

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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

Talmud, The

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.