Adversity Quotes - Page 33

• Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.

  Gay Hendricks

  Inspirational, Pain, Struggle

  Gay Hendricks, PhD (2009). “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

  Rona Barrett

  Inspiring, Strong, Health

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• Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beautiful, Pain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Nature, and Other Addresses”

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• In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Middle

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• Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspiring, Children, Setback

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• Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Perfection, Connections, Needs

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• The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Selfish, Light

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• Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Jesus, Pain, Disappointment

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• True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Loyalty, Failure, Character

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• Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

  Kathrine Switzer

  Triumph, Marathon, Triumph Over Adversity

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• A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.

  John Cena

  Champion, Faces, Wells

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• Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

  Aimee Mullins

  Inspirational, Change, Creativity

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• Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

  Aimee Mullins

  Responsibility, Care, Wells

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• They say when you reach a crossroad or a turning point in life, it really doesn't matter how we got there, but it's what we do next after we got there. Usually you arrive there by adversity, and then it is then and only then that we find out who we truly are and what we're truly made of. It's a process, a gift and a journey, and if we can travel it alone, although the road may be rough at the beginning, you find an ability to walk it. A way to start fresh again. It's neither a downfall nor a failure, but a new beginning.

  Paris Hilton

  New Beginnings, Journey, May

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Hard Work, Poverty, Affluence

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• When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life... We are meant to learn and grow through opposition, through meeting our challenges, and through teaching others to do the same... the Lord will not only consecrate our afflictions for our gain, but He will use them to bless the lives of countless others.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Teaching, Giving, Challenges

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• Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Way, Permanent, Temporary

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• If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Wind, Storm, Foundation

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• It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Character, Destiny, Trials

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• In times of uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Country, Warrior, Men

  Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Wind, Tree

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• Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

  Lou Holtz

  What Matters, Adversity In Life, Matter

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• Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.

  Wes Fesler

  Fall, Victory, Trials

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• A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart

  Bill Parcells

  Basketball, Team, Nba

  Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books

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• You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Opportunity, Nba

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