Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Adversity

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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''

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Schmidt, Walt

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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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

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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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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Proverb, Maori

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Talmud, The

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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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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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

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.

Bryant, William C.

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

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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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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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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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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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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Horace

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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

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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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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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry