Adversity Quotes - Page 6

• Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Friendship, Real, Doe

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.62, Baen Books

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• Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Strength, Warrior, Men

  Robert M. Hensel, “Beyond Limitations”

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• Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Angel, Blessing, People

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Grateful, School

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• As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.

  William Arthur Ward

  Giving, Sorrow, Mountain

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

  James E. Faust

  Encounters, Purpose, Vastness

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• You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

  Edgar Guest

  Clothes You Wear, Despair, Storm

  Edgar Albert Guest (1926). “The Light of Faith”

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• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

  Simon Newcomb

  New Year, Memorial Day, Zest

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Remember to be calm in adversity.

  Horace

  Calm, Remember

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• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

  Edmund Burke

  Instructors, Knows, Severe

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• The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Struggle, Men, Challenges

  Oliver Goldsmith (1816). “The Vicar of Wakefield”, p.176

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• If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be blessed with faith, strength, wisdom and help from others, not only to overcome, but to learn and to grow from those experiences.

  Ronald E. Poelman

  Wisdom, Blessed, Learning

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• Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

  William Shakespeare

  Clothes, Vices, Gowns

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Measure for Measure”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

  Rita Dove

  Order, Literature, Failing

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• We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Religion, Trials

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• Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

  Plutarch

  Men, Prosperity, Harder

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• I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Gone, Classic

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• It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving On, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Mean, Overcoming

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• Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

  Brad Henry

  Mean, Compassion, Oklahoma

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• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Friendship, Ties, Sacred

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• Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

  Robert James Waller

  Art, Remember

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• Problems are the price you pay for progress.

  Branch Rickey

  Survival, Progress, Pay

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• Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

  William Hazlitt

  Motivational, Positive, Teacher

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.298

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• The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, Encouraging, Broken Heart

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. 208

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