Adversity Quotes

A stumble may prevent a fall.

English Proverb

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.

Og Mandino

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Og Mandino

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.

Og Mandino

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Chinese Proverb

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

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