Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Adversity

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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

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

Propertius, Sextus

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Schwab, Charles M.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Horace

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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

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Bible

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Sting

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

Ward, William A.

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

Seneca

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Devito, Danny