Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

Gesser

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

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

Ward, William A.

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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

Jung, Carl

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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

Talmud, The

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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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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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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

Seneca

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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

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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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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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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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

Homer

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Benson, Taylor

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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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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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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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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