Adversity Quotes - Page 20

• Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Military, Failure

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Order, Sometimes, When Things Go Wrong

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.176, Macmillan

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• Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

  Anil Sinha

  Struggle, Character, Personality

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Running, Positive Thinking

  "The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…".

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• Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

  Dalai Lama

  Sleep, Enemy, Easy

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• Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.118, American Liberty Press

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• He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Wretched, Felt

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• In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

  Marc Chagall

  Poverty, Youth, Wealth

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• Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Best Friend, Balance

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• Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.

  John F. Kennedy

  Leadership, Country, Winter

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  My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Change, Running

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Men, Feelings, Pumps

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• Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wind, Kites, Littles

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.27, Penguin

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• The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Character, Opportunity, Creating

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• People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

  Bobby Bowden

  Character, Successful, Thinking

  Interview with Chad Bonham, christiansportsjournal.com. October 5, 2016.

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• The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Honesty, Pain

  "Oedipus Rex". Play by Sophocles, Line 1184,

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• In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

  Livy

  Desire, Assuming, Prosperity

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• Harnessing adversity is a discipline tailored to a world of unpredictable outcomes--a world where one can disturb, but not wholly direct, a living system. Because the unexpected--adversity--is guaranteed, this discipline is about routinely making lemons into lemon meringue pie.

  Richard Pascale

  Pie, Discipline, World

  Richard Pascale, Mark Milleman, Linda Gioja (2001). “Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business”, p.276, Crown Business

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• Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Passion, Character, Development

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• Adversity is a good school.

  Charlotte Bronte

  School, Trouble, Good School

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• In any adversity gold can find friends.

  Amelia Barr

  Gold

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• We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.

  Steve Goodier

  Strength, Spiritual, Thinking

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