Adversity Quotes - Page 37

• The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

  Walter Scott

  Presence Of Mind, Tempest, Oaks

  Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics

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• Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.

  Gay Hendricks

  Inspirational, Pain, Struggle

  Gay Hendricks, PhD (2009). “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

  Rona Barrett

  Inspiring, Strong, Health

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• Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beautiful, Pain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Nature, and Other Addresses”

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• In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Middle

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• Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspiring, Children, Setback

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• Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Perfection, Connections, Needs

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• The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Selfish, Light

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• Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Jesus, Pain, Disappointment

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• True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Loyalty, Failure, Character

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• Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

  Kathrine Switzer

  Triumph, Marathon, Triumph Over Adversity

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• A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.

  John Cena

  Champion, Faces, Wells

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• Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

  Aimee Mullins

  Inspirational, Change, Creativity

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• Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

  Aimee Mullins

  Responsibility, Care, Wells

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• They say when you reach a crossroad or a turning point in life, it really doesn't matter how we got there, but it's what we do next after we got there. Usually you arrive there by adversity, and then it is then and only then that we find out who we truly are and what we're truly made of. It's a process, a gift and a journey, and if we can travel it alone, although the road may be rough at the beginning, you find an ability to walk it. A way to start fresh again. It's neither a downfall nor a failure, but a new beginning.

  Paris Hilton

  New Beginnings, Journey, May

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

  Seneca the Elder

  Brave, Faces, Be Brave

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• Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Powerful, Spring, Rain

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• A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.

  Washington Irving

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

  Joan Baez

  White, Despair, May

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• The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Men, Apprenticeship

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.350

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• I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

  Russell Baker

  Happy Life, Thank God, Unhappy

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• What we want is never simple.

  Linda Pastan

  Inspirational, Simple, Want

  "What We Want". Poem by Linda Pastan, as published in her book "Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998", 1998.

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• Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Endure

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• Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

  Elizabeth I

  Prosperity

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• One who was abhorred by all in prosperity is adored by all in adversity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Prosperity

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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