Motivational Quotes

Adversity

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

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

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Rogers, James

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

Weltman, Phil

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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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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

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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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.

16.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

21.

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

Devito, Danny

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

Warren, Earl

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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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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

25.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

26.

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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Stumbling is not falling.

Proverb, Portuguese

28.

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

30.

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

Brown, Les

31.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

34.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

Proverb, Maori

37.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Horace

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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.

40.

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

Shain, Merle

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

48.

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

Walton, Sam

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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

Gesser