Adversity Quotes - Page 9

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Hard Times, Tough Times, Entrepreneur

  " Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate" by David Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Good Morning, Dream

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

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• Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

  Scott Hamilton

  Perseverance, Skating, Able

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• Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.23, e-artnow

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• I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

  Boris Pasternak

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  Doctor Zhivago ch. 13 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Princess, Dragons

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Character, Light

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

  Tacitus

  Struggle, Affluence, Miserable

  Tacitus (2016). “Strategy Six Pack 4”, p.357, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Light, Soul

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1854). “The Beauties of Shakespeare. [By W. Dodd.]”, p.19

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• For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

  Boethius

  Happiness, Depression, Depressing

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• Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

  James F. Cooper

  Motivational, Friendship, Spring

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• Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Philosophy, Milk

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 54

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• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

  John Vance Cheney

  Heartbroken, Breakup, Spiritual

  John Vance Cheney (1905). “Poems”

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• It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Motivation, Character, Men

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• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Powerful, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

  Livy

  Comfort, Ease

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• I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Love, Failure, Learning

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• Adversity is the mother of progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mother, Progress

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Photography, Light

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• I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

  James Beard

  Believe, Food, Practice

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Fighting, Men

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Monsters

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  There is in every true 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.

  Washington Irving

  Encouraging, Kindness, Lying

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.39, e-artnow

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