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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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

Neal, John

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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

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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

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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Hoffman, Dustin

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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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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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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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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Qur'an

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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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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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)

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Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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

Jung, Carl

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

Horace

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Movie, Apollo 13

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

Seneca

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert