Adversity Quotes - Page 16

• A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Moving On, Encouraging

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• One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

  Virginia Woolf

  Strong Women, People, Triumph

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Knowing Who You Are, Christian Inspirational

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• All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Depressing

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• Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

  Aesop

  Men, Littles, Fables

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Crush, Sweet, Smell

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.221

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• As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hard Times, Long, Born

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• Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Promise, Wonderful

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• Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

  Homer

  Love, War, Tired

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• Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.

  Robert Breault

  Thinking, Tvs, Sometimes

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• Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

  Antonio Porchia

  Suffering, Vain

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• As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Fire, Iron

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• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Grieving, Soul

  William Shakespeare, Alfred Harbage (1977). “The complete works”

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• Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Substance, Littles

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.57

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• Adversity is the first path to truth.

  Lord Byron

  Kindness, Not Giving Up, Thoughtful

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

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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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• He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• A wounded deer leaps the highest.

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Writing, Deep Thought

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• In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

  Horatius Bonar

  God, Christian, Differences

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 7), 1895.

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• It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Kindness, Not Giving Up

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• I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Giving, Growth, Battle

  Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

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• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Congratulations, World

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• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Years, Weather, Long

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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