Adversity Quotes - Page 12

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

  Horace

  Change, Heart, Literature

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• As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

  Steven Seagal

  Art, Faces, Calm

  "Steven Seagal: a reality TV star is born" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

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• We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happiness, Song, Laughter

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  "Stray Birds". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

  Harry S. Truman

  Wisdom, Gossip, Advice

  Mr Citizen (1960) ch. 15 (see also Harry Vaughan 22.6)

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Humanity, Affliction, Tolerate

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• Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Opportunity, Significant, Found

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• Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Home, Israel

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• It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

  Martial

  Real, Fortitude, Easy

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• Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem

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• Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

  Billie Holiday

  Fighting, Winning, African American

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (1956). “Lady sings the blues”

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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.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Teacher, Pay, Instruction

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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

  Fate, Born, Shoulders

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

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• Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  James Buckham Kennedy

  Depression, Wise, Soul

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Winter, Greatest Wealth

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World, Easy, Graves

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• Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Gratitude, Blessing, Being Blessed

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• Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

  Scott Hamilton

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Self Esteem

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• If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

  Richard Marx

  Thinking, Thrive

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• The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

  Max Lerner

  Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.

  Mary McAleese

  New Relationship, America, Special

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Kindness

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.2

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