Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Adversity

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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

Devito, Danny

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''

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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

Schwab, Charles M.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Seneca

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Gesser

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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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

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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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop