Adversity Quotes - Page 22

• Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Bitterness, Bears, Remember

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• A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Past, Appreciate, Doe

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• Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Positive, Opportunity, Hard Times

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• Politics ruins the character.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Character, Politics, Ruins

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• You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.

  Bear Bryant

  Horse, Hook, Alabama Football

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• I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mistake, Thinking, Proud

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• When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.

  Sandra Bullock

  Pain, People, Moments

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• Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

  Robert Burns

  Determination, Character, Wish

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• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

  Jimmy Carter

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Historical

  1978 Address to the Parliament of India, 2 Jun.

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• Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

  Anton Chekhov

  Appreciation, Nature, Winter

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Certain, Mess, Amount

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

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

  Kirk Douglas

  Philosophy, Deals, Knows

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

  Philip Emeagwali

  People, Stronger, Prison

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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Hard Times, Romantic Love

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• When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

  Epictetus

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

  Epicurus

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.89, Lulu.com

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• Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

  Euripides

  Depression, Sadness, Blow

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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