Motivational Quotes

Adversity

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

- Gesser

Best Quotes about 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

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

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

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

Warren, Earl

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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

Seneca

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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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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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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

Proverb, Maori

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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 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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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

Heraclitus

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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Grant, Hanmer Parsons

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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''