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Quotes About Adversity

everything in life is a good news/bad news story.
~ Gordon Livingston
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
~ Gordon Parks
Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.
~ Gordon R. Dickson
I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.
~ Gordon Ramsay
And these vicissitudes tell best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Hath won the experience which is deem'd so weighty.
~ Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819
Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence.
~ Terri Guillemets
Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment.
~ Dodinsky
Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty.
~ J. Andrew Helt
If you allow momentary defeats to find shelter in your heart, you are allowing your most beautiful dreams to become homeless.
~ Dodinsky
One needs a light spirit to bear a heavy fate.
~ Danish Proverb
When it rains, it pours. You decide what comes down.
~ Justin Uyehara
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.
~ Susan Longacre
Dear Life: When you give me dilemmas, I make dilemmanade.
~ Author Unknown
Life does not have a stop sign, only a speed limiter.
~ Harshit Bhattaram
You can't get overwhelmed by the thought of all the weeds if there are flowers in your soul.
~ Terri Guillemets
If you fail to look at the Brightside of life, You will fail to succeed at leaving the Darkside of life.
~ Amir Al-Rubai
Even if you lose a ray or two of your star, keep shining!
~ Terri Guillemets
Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for.
~ Scottish Proverb
Everyone can navigate in fine weather.
~ Italian proverb
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
~ Proverb
Better bread with water than cake with trouble.
~ Russian proverb
I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.
~ Winston Churchill
The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.
~ Author Unknown