Overcoming Adversity Quotes

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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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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Change, Life Lesson

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 25, 2016

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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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• We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

  Simone Weil

  Christian, Religious, Adversity

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• The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving On, Spiritual, Strong Women

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.70, Penguin

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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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• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Motivational, Friendship, Positive

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

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• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

  Moliere

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

  Twitter post from Apr 7, 2012

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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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• 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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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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  If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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  One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.258, Courier Corporation

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  When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

  Peter Marshall

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”

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• Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.

  Marianne Williamson

  Optimistic, Adversity, Dark

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 22, 2010

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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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