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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

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

Qur'an

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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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Cady, Emilie

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

Proverb, Maori

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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 your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Only entropy comes easy.

Mumford, Lewis

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Epictetus

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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

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

Rogers, James

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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Landers, Ann

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Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]

Bible

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Bennet, Arnold

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The proof of gold is fire...