Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Woolf, Virginia

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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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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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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Mandino, Og

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

Ward, William A.

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

James, William

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

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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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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

Virgil

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aesop

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

Seneca

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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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