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

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

Propertius, Sextus

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Brown, Les

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

Zwanzig, Carl

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

Ward, William A.

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

Jung, Carl

Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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.

10.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Schwab, Charles M.

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

15.

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

Saadi

16.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

17.

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

18.

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

Gesser

19.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

20.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Ziglar, Zig

22.

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

Seneca

23.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

24.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

25.

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

26.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

27.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

30.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

31.

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

32.

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

Augustine, St.

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

37.

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

38.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Holtz, Lou

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Mandino, Og

46.

If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

47.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

48.

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

49.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

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