Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Casey, M Kathleen

Best Quotes about Adversity

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

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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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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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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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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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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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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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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horace

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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

Sting

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Horace

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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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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

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.