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Quotes About Adversity

She survived whatever happened; she forgave; she became.
~ W.H. Auden
Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless.
~ W.H. Auden
My heart is hardy, for I have suffered much on the seas and the battlefield: this will be only something more. But a ravenous belly cannot be hid, damn the thing. It gives a world of trouble to men, makes them fit out fleets of ships and scour the barren sea, to bring misery on their enemies.
~ Unknown
El único fracaso verdadero es aquel en que la víctima se queda sin brío, aturdida, abatida, rodeada de oscuridad y, en su interior, un cuchillo le corta lenta e implacablemente las cuerdas del corazón.
~ Unknown
poverty proved greater than vanity...
~ Unknown
She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.
~ Unknown
The Hydra calls me but I am used to it It calls me Everybody But I know my name and do not answer
~ W.S. Merwin
Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.
~ Gael Monfils
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
~ Bruce Lee
I was very sickly as a kid and had a lot of allergies, so martial arts gave me the chance to feel strong.
~ Dolph Lundgren
We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.
~ David Blatt
I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.
~ Kevin O'Leary
I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.
~ Erik Estrada
...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.
~ Ishmael Beah
The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
~ Ted Turner
If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.
~ Danny Bautista
To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.
~ Morgan Spurlock
I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.
~ Bobby Knight
I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.
~ Hope Edelman
I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.
~ Muhammad Ali
The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.
~ Napoleon Hill
It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.
~ Patricia Velasquez
Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.
~ Robin Sharma