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

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Tagore, Rabindranath

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Shain, Merle

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

Neal, John

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Movie, Apollo 13

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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

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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

13.

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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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''

18.

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

19.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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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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Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.

Joshee, Anandabai

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

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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 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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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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.

Mandino, Og

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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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

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

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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

45.

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Brown, Les

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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.