Adversity Quotes - Page 31

• People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

  Cal Thomas

  Running, People, Water

  Cal Thomas (1990). “Death of Ethics in America”, W Publishing Group

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• Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Facts, Human Nature, Interpretation

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• Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Fall, Character

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• A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Suffering, Principles, Departure

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Dream, Stars, Lying

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• After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous.

  Jerome Kagan

  Humility, Important, Needs

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• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

  Plutarch

  Motivation, Crazy, Inspiration

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• The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 10, 2014

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• Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

  Andy Andrews

  Self, Discipline, Want

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• Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Opportunity, Greatness, Giving

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• Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.

  Steven Furtick

  Perspective, Problem

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• If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

  Richard DeVos

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

  Eric Hoffer

  Future, Past, Preoccupation

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.

  Jim Rohn

  Education, Time, Minor Things

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• People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Grace, Another Day

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• Ive learned that everything happens for a reason, the yogi Krishnan told him. Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

  Robin Sharma

  Teacher, Regret, Past

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• Not every bad break is negative in the long term; not every problem is a bona fide injustice; and not every injustice is major when juxtaposed against the millions of injustices that occur daily throughout the world.

  Robert Ringer

  Long, Negative, World

  Robert J. Ringer (2000). “Getting what You Want: The Seven Principles of Rational Living”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.

  Thomas Dreier

  Talking, Giving, Desire

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• You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.

  James Brady

  Pain, Kindness, Thoughtful

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• Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

  Cicely Tyson

  Life, Women, Challenges

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

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• Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.

  Don Sutton

  Criticism, Grain

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• Difficulties, opposition, criticism-these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Joy, Special, Criticism

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• Jesus didn't save you so you could cruise to heaven in a luxury liner. He wants you to be useful in His kingdom! The moment you got saved, He enrolled you in His school the school of suffering and affliction.

  David Wilkerson

  Jesus, School, Luxury

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• Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Fire, Gold

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