Adversity Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

  Ogden Nash

  Loyalty, Prepared, Oppressed

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• To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

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• When you face adversity . . . don't' ask: Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this, now? What have I done to cause this? Rather ask: What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial?

  Richard G. Scott

  Learning, Blessing, Suffering

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• Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

  Marianne Williamson

  Optimistic, Dark, Clouds

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 22, 2010

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• The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!

  Rajneesh

  Past, Overcoming, Clinging

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• Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

  Seneca the Elder

  Brave, Faces, Be Brave

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• Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Powerful, Spring, Rain

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• A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

  Washington Irving

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

  Joan Baez

  White, Despair, May

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• The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Men, Apprenticeship

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.350

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• I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

  Russell Baker

  Happy Life, Thank God, Unhappy

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• What we want is never simple.

  Linda Pastan

  Inspirational, Simple, Want

  "What We Want". Poem by Linda Pastan, as published in her book "Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998", 1998.

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• Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Endure

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• Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

  Elizabeth I

  Prosperity

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• One who was abhorred by all in prosperity is adored by all in adversity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Prosperity

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you're made of.

  Andrew Asnes

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity.

  Frederick Ferre

  Opportunity, Moments, Disarray

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• It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

  Sophocles

  Life, Pain, Responsibility

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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