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

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Saadi

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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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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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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

Horace

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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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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

Aesop

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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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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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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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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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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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