Adversity Quotes - Page 15

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  There is no education like adversity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Teacher, Motivation

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

  Solomon

  Eugenics, Prosperity, Joyful

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• You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

  Leon Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Baseball

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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  Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strength, Success, Encouraging

  "Lake Wobegon Days". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1985.

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• Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Teamwork, Moving, People

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• A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

  Lewis Mumford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Good Morning, Sleep

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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• Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

  Lucy Larcom

  Sunshine, Blessing, Doe

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

  Kin Hubbard

  Birthday, People, Able

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• He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Mind, Bears

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• I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

  Paula Cole

  Difficult Situations, Accepting, Used

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• Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

  David Hare

  Strong, Two, Mind

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• A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Christian, States, Secure

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.273, Harvard University Press

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• Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Hero, Humanity, Awful

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• Adversity reminds men of religion.

  Livy

  Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", V. 51, (pp. 9-10), 1922.

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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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• We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

  Tacitus

  Struggle, Wealth, Wretched

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• It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

  Horace

  Courage, Blood, Bravery

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• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Good Life, Learning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

  Andre Gide

  Memories, Problem

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• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  O. Henry

  Life, Pet, Made

  Four Million (1906) "Gift of the Magi"

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• Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

  John Keats

  Life, Depression, Wisdom

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.824, Delphi Classics

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• Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

  Plutarch

  Uplifting, Suffering, Deeds

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• There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

  Lou Reed

  Grief, Loss, Grieving

  "Vision : Defining Your Destiny in Life". Book by Stephen R. Covey, 2000.

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