Adversity Quotes - Page 23

• Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds.

  Ron Fournier

  Odds, President, Overcoming

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Order, Realizing

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• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Work, Failure

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• I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Spring, Real

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• Paralyze resistance with persistence.

  Woody Hayes

  Perseverance, Failure, Not Giving Up

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• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.70, Penguin

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• A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Positive, Business, Educational

  Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

  William James

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

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• What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Fake People, Humor

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Trust, Betrayal

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• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

  Helen Keller

  Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Faith, Angel, Shadow

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• Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Men, Way, Introducing

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• If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Inspirational, Caring, Fire

  LUCY LARCOM (1869). “POEMS”, p.186

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  What worries you, masters you.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Running, Volleyball

  "El Guerrouj digs deep for long-awaited gold" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2004.

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• The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Motivational, Depression, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

  James Madison

  Angel, Men, Democracies Have

  The Federalist no. 51 (1788)

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• You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

  Og Mandino

  Home, Events, Apollo 13

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• Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

  Horace Mann

  Evil, Mercy, Should

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• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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  When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

  Peter Marshall

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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