Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Adversity

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

10.

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

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Ziglar, Zig

15.

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

18.

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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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

22.

Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

24.

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

Benson, Taylor

25.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

26.

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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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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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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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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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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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

33.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

34.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

35.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

37.

Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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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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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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

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

42.

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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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

45.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

50.

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