Adversity Quotes - Page 29

• If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Want, Sun

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• In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Failure, Wrestling

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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  It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Sides

  Jimmy Buffett (2002). “Tales from Margaritaville: Fictional Facts and Factual Fictions”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Remember, Possibility

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• The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Mountain, Inspired

  "Lose the Baggage, Lose the Weight: A Woman-to-Woman Recipe for Life" by Lorna Stremcha, p. 63, October 18, 2011.

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• Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  James Buckham Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Powerful

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• Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Failure, Power

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• Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

  Violeta Parra

  Cute Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

  John Dewey

  Change, Education, Memories

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.146, SIU Press

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• Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Nov 26, 2015

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• Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jul 07, 2014

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• In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

  James Burgh

  Change, Prosperity

  James Burgh (1794). “The Dignity of Human Nature; or, a Brief account of the certain and established means for attaining the true end of our existence ... By J. B. (James Burgh.)”, p.104

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• Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

  J. Willard Marriott

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

  Hugh Miller

  Encouraging, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

  Edwin Markham

  Encouraging, Kindness, Not Giving Up

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  Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Mistake

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• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Character, Acceptance

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• A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

  Billy Graham

  Humor, Overcoming, Unconventional

  Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam

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  There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Leadership, Perseverance

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Learning, Men

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• Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Failure, Clouds

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  Hal Borland

  Weed, Nature, Monday

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• ~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Pain, Struggle

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• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

  William James

  Respect, Struggle, Opposites

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

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