Adversity Quotes - Page 4

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  Epicurus

  Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage

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• The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

  Morris Mandel

  Success, Sixty Minutes, Perspective

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  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

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• Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

  Josephine Hart

  I Hate You, People, Damage

  "Fictional character: Anna Barton". "Damage", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

  Og Mandino

  Wisdom, Triumph, Seize The Day

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• Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

  Billy Graham

  Reality, Religion, World

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Half, Known

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.238

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• One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.

  Jerry Bridges

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Success, Uplifting

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• You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

  James J. Corbett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

  Leslie Grossman

  Inspirational, Positive, Feelings

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

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• Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

  Theodore Roethke

  Failure, Wrestling, Hiking

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• The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Bravery, Scary

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1927). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917)”

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• Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Spiritual, Blessed, Hard Times

  "Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems".

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• No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

  Randy Pausch

  Good Morning, Good Day, Optimistic

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

  Catherine Marshall

  Encouragement, Doors, Want

  Catherine Marshall (2002). “A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall”, p.21, Chosen Books

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• It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

  Grenville Kleiser

  May, Littles, Disability

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• Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth in ATTITUDE and DESIRE. If endured with the right attitude and accompanied by righteous desires, suffering and deprivation can be the agency of great growth in our spirits.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Attitude, Mean, Agency

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• Adversity makes men remember God.

  Livy

  Men, Remember

  "Was the Governor of Tokyo Right -- Is God Punishing Japan?" by Mark Joseph, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2011.

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• Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.

  Mario Fernandez

  Life, Inspiration, Bad Day

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• It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

  Friedrich Schiller

  School, Challenges, May

  "The Philosophical and Aesthetic Letters and Essays".

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• Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

  William Shakespeare

  Past, Best Things, Seems

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.425

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• To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

  Wilfred Bion

  Bears, Ill

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• Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

  Antonio Porchia

  Thinking, Suffering, Want

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