Adversity Quotes - Page 14

• There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

  Barbara Jordan

  Hard Work, People, Preparation

  "Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk". Book edited Larry Chang and Roderick Terry, p. 117, 2007.

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• In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fake People, Islamic, Hypocrite

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• Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Christian, Experience

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “What Happens When Women Say Yes to God Deluxe Edition: Experiencing Life in Extraordinary Ways”, p.12, Harvest House Publishers

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• Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Positive, Entrepreneur

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• Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

  Jim Rohn

  Caring, Problem, Concern

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 21, 2017

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• There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Depression, Witty

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• No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Men, Fire

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• When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

  W. A. Criswell

  Moving On, Encouraging, God

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• This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Life, Motivational, Encouraging

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Inspirational, Soul, World

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• Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome.

  Bill Struth

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Disappointment, Heartache, Valleys

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• A good resolve will make any port.

  Horace

  Port, Resolve

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  Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.181, Penguin

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• You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Imperfect World, Doors, May

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• Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

  Walter Annenberg

  Tests, Inevitable, Testing

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• It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

  Heraclitus

  Failure, Men, Wish

  "Fragments (Fragment 110)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, War, Hard Times

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2631, Delphi Classics

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• He who does not tire, tires adversity.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Doe, Tire, Adversity And Perseverance

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• It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Graduation, Perseverance

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• Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Jewels, Challenges

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Motivational, Friendship, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

  Rose Kennedy

  Inspirational, Happiness, Nature

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• By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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