Adversity Quotes - Page 32

• The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Athlete, Way

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

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• Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

  Kerri Walsh

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

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• I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Pain, Struggle

  Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.25, Rodale

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• I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Running, Jobs

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• True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Family, True Friend

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239

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• There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Overcoming, Good Character

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• The key to winning is poise under stress.

  Paul Brown

  Stress, Winning, Nfl

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• Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Attitude, Decision

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Attitude, Giving

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• At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Freedom, Attitude, Agency

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• I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hate, Guilt, Bitterness

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• Make choices-not excuses.

  Charles J. Givens

  Choices, Excuse

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• True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Gods Will, True Peace, Separating

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• Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Succeed, Failing, Divine

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.190, Wildside Press LLC

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• You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

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• During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A few individuals may appear to have no trials at all, which, if it were so, would be a trial in itself. Indeed, if, as do trees, our souls had rings to measure the years of greatest personal growth, the wide rings would likely reflect the years of greatest moisture-but from tears, not rainfall.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Years, Tree, Soul

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• Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.

  Ardeth Kapp

  Wise, Errands, Way

  Ardeth Greene Kapp (1987). “I Walk by Faith”, Shadow Mountain

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• If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in the Lord, there is no hope.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Self, Long, Feelings

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• Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Self

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• I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Wish, Give Me

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• All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Loss, Suffering, Resurrection

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• The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Soul, Remodeling

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Sight, Trials, Impossible

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• In sickness, with its attendant pain, patience is required. If the only perfect man who ever lived-even Jesus of Nazareth-was called upon to endure great suffering, how can we, who are less than perfect, expect to be free of such challenges?

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Pain, Men

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