Adversity Quotes - Page 14

• There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

  Barbara Jordan

  Hard Work, People, Preparation

  "Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk". Book edited Larry Chang and Roderick Terry, p. 117, 2007.

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• Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Inspirational, Running, Native American

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• The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.80, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

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• Don’t be sad by what you see
  It’s true life has it’s miseries
  But one thing’s always worked for me
  Worry ends when faith begins.

  Sami Yusuf

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Song: Worry Ends

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• God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

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• In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.

  Bo Lozoff

  Kindness, War, Luxury

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• No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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• Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Positive, Entrepreneur

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• Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Heartbreak, Spiritual

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• In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fake People, Islamic, Hypocrite

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• Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you.

  Joel Osteen

  Strength, God, Faith

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Disappointment, Heartache, Valleys

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• A good resolve will make any port.

  Horace

  Port, Resolve

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  Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.181, Penguin

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• You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Imperfect World, Doors, May

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• Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

  Walter Annenberg

  Tests, Inevitable, Testing

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

  Heraclitus

  Failure, Men, Wish

  "Fragments (Fragment 110)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, War, Hard Times

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• He who does not tire, tires adversity.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Doe, Tire, Adversity And Perseverance

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• It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Graduation, Perseverance

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• Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Jewels, Challenges

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Motivational, Friendship, Positive

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

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• Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

  Rose Kennedy

  Inspirational, Happiness, Nature

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• In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

  Solomon

  Eugenics, Prosperity, Joyful

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