Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gallagher, Robert C.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Aesop

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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

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

Seneca

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

Horace

10.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

11.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

12.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

18.

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

19.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

20.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

21.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

22.

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

Saadi

24.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

25.

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

26.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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

28.

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

Wells, H.G.

30.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

31.

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

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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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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

34.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Seneca

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

38.

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

39.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

40.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

41.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gesser

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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

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

47.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

49.

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

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

Barclay, H.K.