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

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

Virgil

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gesser

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

19.

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

Landers, Ann

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Keats, John

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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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)

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

Seneca

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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

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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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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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

Proverb, Maori

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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Brown, Les

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ward, William A.

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

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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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

39.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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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

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

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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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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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

Augustine, St.

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

Tagore, Rabindranath