Adversity Quotes - Page 38

• In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Mind, Body, Disease

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.66, Weiser Books

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• Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

  Publilius Syrus

  Shadow, Shows

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 35, 1856.

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• Adversity and challenges are life’s way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there is no change and challenge, there can be no growth and development.

  Willie Jolley

  Life, Change, Strength

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• Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

  Jim George

  Character, Godly, Opportunity

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• If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

  George A. Sheehan

  Winning, Race, Want

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• Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

  John Updike

  Crush, Use, Dose

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• If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Self Esteem, Overcoming

  Napoleon Hill (1993). “Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards”, p.3, Penguin

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• Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Friendly, Faces, Baha

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• Case in point: Take adversity and make it an asset.

  Donald Trump

  Assets, Cases

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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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• Do you realize that your life at this very moment is the result of everything that you have ever thought , done , believed , or felt up until now ? You can start right now to consciously and deliberately attract whatever you desire in this lifetime.

  Jack Canfield

  Desire, Overcoming, Done

  Jack Canfield, D. D. Watkins (2007). “Jack Canfield's Key to Living the Law of Attraction: A Simple Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams”, p.13, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Miracle, Overcoming, Conviction

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 05, 2010

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• Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

  Esther Hicks

  Overcoming, Want, Like You

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• You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

  Edgar Bergen

  Mistake, Overcoming, Pay

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• You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Past, Forever

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 30, 2012

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• The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn.

  David Wolpe

  Struggle, Character, Sadness

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• Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

  Aron Ralston

  Inspirational, Greatness, Blessing

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• The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Two, Principles

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• Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Giving Up, Cups, Providence

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1863). “Cithara: a selection from the lyrics of M. F. Tupper”, p.48

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• Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Long

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• These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Home, Night

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