Adversity Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fate, Self, Trying

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• Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

  Lucille Clifton

  Break, Made, Certainty

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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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• 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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• Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

  Paul Tsongas

  Faith, Commitment, Journey

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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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• And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

  Lesley Gore

  Character, Confusion, Age

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• Remember to be calm in adversity.

  Horace

  Calm, Remember

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• There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

  Antonio Porchia

  Memories, Suffering, Remember

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

  Antonio Porchia

  Suffering, Form, Humans

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Only entropy comes easy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Easy, Difficulty, Entropy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

  Chanakya

  Relationship, Wife, Tests

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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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• I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

  Allen Klein

  Laughing, Essentials, Defeat

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• For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

  George Santayana

  Men, Fire, Gold

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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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