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

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Benson, Taylor

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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

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

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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

11.

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Weltman, Phil

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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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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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

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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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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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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

Seneca

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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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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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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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