Variant: Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
A maxim of Hill's, specifically cited as such, in Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960), co-authored with W. Clement Stone, Ch. 14, p. 222.
“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.”
Og Mandino (1923–1996) American author
Rufus Choate (1799–1859) American politician
"The Power of a State Developed by Mental Culture", an address to the Mercantile Library Association (18 November 1844), published in The Works of Rufus Choate : Memoir, Lectures and Addresses (1862), edited by Samuel Gilman Brown.
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free — not the Holy Sepulchre — but that God buried in matter and in our souls.
Every body, every soul is a Holy Sepulcher. Every seed of grain is a Holy Sepulchre; let us free it! The brain is a Holy Sepulchre, God sprawls within it and battles with death; let us run to his assistance!
“This Divine Seed is in every person good or bad.”
Rufus M. Jones (1863–1948) American writer
Social Law in the Spiritual World (1904)
Context: The Inner Light is the doctrine that there is something Divine, "something of God," in the human soul.
Five words are used indiscriminately to name this Divine something: "The Light," "The Seed," "Christ within," "The Spirit," "That of God in you." This Divine Seed is in every person good or bad.
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775), Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 169
“Look for every seed of enthusiasm, and try to build pockets of success.”
Gareth Morgan (1943) Organizational theorist
Source: Imaginization (1993), p. 47
