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

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Irving, Washington

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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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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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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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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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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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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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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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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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

Warren, Earl

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

Seneca

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Devito, Danny

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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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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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

Weltman, Phil

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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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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