Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Things were bad but now they are OK.

- Seymour, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Propertius, Sextus

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Landers, Ann

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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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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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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

Rogers, James

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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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

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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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

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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

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Wells, H.G.

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Barclay, H.K.

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

Horace

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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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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.