Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Shain, Merle

Best Quotes about Adversity

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

Qur'an

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Billings, Josh

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

10.

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''

11.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

12.

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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Paine, Thomas

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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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

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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

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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

26.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

27.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

28.

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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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

32.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

34.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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

Seneca

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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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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

39.

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

Shain, Merle

40.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

48.

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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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind