Quotes about adversity

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

Movie, Apollo 13 on adversity
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"Only entropy comes easy."

Mumford, Lewis on adversity   

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

Neal, John on adversity
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Nixon, Richard M. on adversity
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"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'' on adversity
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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 on adversity
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"They sicken at the calm that know the storm."

Parker, Dorothy on adversity
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"Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle."

Peale, Norman Vincent on adversity
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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 on adversity   

"I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on adversity
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"The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do."

Perez, Rosie on adversity
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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 on adversity
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"Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great."

Pliny The Elder on adversity   

"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."

Plutarch on adversity   

"Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly."

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

Propertius, Sextus on adversity   

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

Proverb, Chinese on adversity
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"A stumble may prevent a fall."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us."

Proverb, Italian on adversity
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"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."

Proverb, Maori on adversity
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"Stumbling is not falling."

Proverb, Portuguese on adversity
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"Any port in a storm."

Proverb, Scottish on adversity   

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

Qur'an on adversity
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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 on adversity
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"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 on adversity
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"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."

Richter, Jean Paul on adversity   

"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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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 on adversity   

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."

Roethke, Theodore on adversity
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"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."

Rogers, James on adversity
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"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 on adversity
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"People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within"

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler on adversity
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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 on adversity
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"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on adversity
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"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."

Russell, Rosalind on adversity