Adversity Quotes - Page 23

• Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

  Hugh Miller

  Encouraging, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

  Edwin Markham

  Encouraging, Kindness, Not Giving Up

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  Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Mistake

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• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Character, Acceptance

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• A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

  Billy Graham

  Humor, Overcoming, Unconventional

  Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam

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  There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Leadership, Perseverance

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Learning, Men

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• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Failure, Clouds

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  Hal Borland

  Weed, Nature, Monday

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• ~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Pain, Struggle

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• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

  William James

  Respect, Struggle, Opposites

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

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• It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Grateful, Victory

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• Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.

  Robert Owen

  Health, Ignorance, Society

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.349

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• Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance for the next. The more we sorrow in the present, ..the greater will be our joy in the future.

  Isidore of Seville

  Sympathy, Joy, Suffering

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• Adventure is worthwhile.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

  Merle Shain

  Cancer, Learning, Agony

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Children, Greatness

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• One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Horse, Decision, Wish

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• There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Confidence, Perseverance, Believe

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• In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

  Horace

  Courage, Stress, Valiant

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• I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Courage, Humility, Lunch

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• You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

  Eva Jessye

  Courage, Memories, Past

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• The will must be stronger than the skill.

  Muhammad Ali

  Courage, Perseverance, Bodybuilding

  Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham (2015). “The Greatest: My Own Story”, p.328, Graymalkin Media

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• Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

  Pearl S. Buck

  Courage, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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• The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

  Dan Quayle

  Life, Leadership, Motivation

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