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Things were bad but now they are OK.
- Seymour, Harold J.
Adversity Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Adversity

1.
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

2.
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

3.
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

4.
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Jung, Carl

5.
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Propertius, Sextus

6.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Forbes, Malcolm S.

7.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Johnson, Samuel

8.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Landers, Ann

9.
If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

10.
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Lawrence, Thomas E.

11.
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Horton, Doug

12.
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

13.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Rogers, James

14.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Peale, Norman Vincent

15.
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''

16.
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

17.
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

18.
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

19.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Roethke, Theodore

20.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Neal, John

21.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Gibran, Kahlil

22.
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

23.
A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
Westcott, Edward Noyes

24.
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

25.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.
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

27.
Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

28.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Alcott, Louisa May

29.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Beecher, Henry Ward

30.
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
Cady, Emilie

31.
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Walton, Sam

32.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Pliny The Elder

33.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Billings, Josh

34.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Keats, John

35.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Seneca

36.
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

37.
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

38.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Sayers, Dorothy L.

39.
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Qur'an

40.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Wells, H.G.

41.
Stumbling is not falling.
Proverb, Portuguese

42.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Benson, Taylor

43.
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

44.
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

45.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Collins, Kitty O'neill

46.
When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Barclay, H.K.

47.
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

48.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace

49.
In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Hoffman, Dustin

50.
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.


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