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

1.

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

2.

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

Homer

3.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

4.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

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

6.

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

7.

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

Hoffman, Dustin

8.

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

Gesser

9.

They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

10.

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

11.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

12.

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

13.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

14.

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

Aesop

15.

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

Bible

16.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

17.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

20.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

21.

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

Lawrence, Thomas E.

22.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

23.

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

24.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

25.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

26.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

27.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

28.

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

Saadi

29.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

30.

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

Ward, William A.

31.

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

32.

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

33.

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''

34.

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

35.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

36.

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

Seneca

37.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

44.

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

45.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

46.

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

47.

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

Bennet, Arnold

48.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

50.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug