Adversity In Life Quotes - Page 3

• The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

  Morris Mandel

  Success, Adversity, Sixty Minutes

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• When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

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• To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

  Oscar Wilde

  Adversity, Men, Privilege

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.730, GENERAL PRESS

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• There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Motivational Sports, Adversity

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• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

  Agatha Christie

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Depression

  "The Story of Walt Disney". Book by Diane Disney Miller, Pete Martin, 1957.

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• I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Spring, Real

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• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

  Boris Pasternak

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  Doctor Zhivago ch. 13 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.37, BoD – Books on Demand

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• There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.92

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• Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.

  Tom Brady

  Life, Adversity, Responsibility

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• I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

  Aaron Schock

  Adversity, Faces, Defeat

  "Disgraced Rep. Aaron Schock Compares Himself To Lincoln In Farewell Speech" by Laura Barron-Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2015.

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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, Adversity, Confusion

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• Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.

  Kevin Conroy

  Adversity, Unique, Journey

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• Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

  Karen White

  Song, Heart, Adversity

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

  Lou Holtz

  Adversity, What Matters, Matter

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• Adversity in life teaches you.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Adversity, Teach, Life Teaches

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