Inspirational Adversity Quotes - Page 3

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

  Voltaire

  Motivational, Inspiration, Adversity

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.5643, e-artnow

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• Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Running, Positive Thinking

  "The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…".

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• There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

  Lee Iacocca

  Adversity, Fate, Born

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

  Victor Kiam

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Cheer

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2011

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  The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yoga

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• If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Adversity, Trouble, Capacity

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• If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• It is not the critic who counts

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Military, Failure

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• The course of true anything never does run smooth.

  Samuel Butler

  Uplifting, Running, Adversity

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Courage, Badass

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

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• Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

  Rose Kennedy

  Adversity, Bird, Singing

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Adversity, Hard Times, Tough Times

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

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• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  Epicurus

  Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage

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