Overcoming Adversity Quotes - Page 5

• Throughout the journey of my life, I have maintained a strong faith in the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Strong, Believe, Adversity

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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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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• In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivation, Adversity, Opportunity

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• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

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

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• I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

  Lou Holtz

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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

  Josephine Hart

  I Hate You, Adversity, People

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

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• We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

  C. West Churchman

  Foundation, Who God Is, Helping

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• It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Encouraging, Wise

  Address beforeWisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee,Wis., 30 Sept. 1859

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• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

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• 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

  Change, Encouraging, Uplifting

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 21, 2014

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• If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Adversity, Jewels

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Adversity, Fighting

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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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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• Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Inspirational, Success, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Danielle LaPorte from Jan 23, 2012

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• You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

  Edgar Bergen

  Mistake, Adversity, Overcoming

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• Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.

  Tom Landry

  Sports, Team, Character

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• Adversity is the first path to truth.

  Lord Byron

  Kindness, Adversity, Not Giving Up

  Lord Byron (2009). “Don Juan”, p.520, The Floating Press

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