Facing Adversity Quotes

• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 26, 2014

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• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Kindness, Cancer

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.356, Da Capo Press

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• When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Business

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• Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Christian

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• Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Life, Adversity, Faces

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.184

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• The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Crazy, Struggle

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

  Abigail Adams

  Character, Wish, Endurance

  Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780

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• Tough times never last, but tough people do.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Positive, Cheer

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

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• I love those who can smile in trouble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Strength, Smile

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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  T. S. Eliot

  Adversity, Hard Times, Tough Times

  " Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate" by David Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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• Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Cheer

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2011

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• He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

  William Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Positive, Crazy

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It is the business of little minds to shrink.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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• If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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  Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Sports

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