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Quotes About Adversity

Life is about changes and opportunities. We don't always get a perfect picture.
~ Ellen J. Barrier
Be real. I'm going up against three of the world's most vicious ubervillains. I have a very, very slim chance of survival. I have a better chance of winning the lottery, and I don't even play.
~ Unknown
Accidents are built into the road.
~ Marty Rubin
If fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your tooth.
~ Persian Proverb
We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us Birthdays was the worst days Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.
~ Unknown
Don't hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
~ Steve Allen
For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
~ Viswanathan Anand
After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
~ I. F. Stone
First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
~ Marie Curie
You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.
~ Tim Tebow
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
~ Lajos Kossuth
Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.
~ Unknown
When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.
~ Hilary Thayer Hamann
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
~ William Feather
Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the world'
~ Pope Leo XIII
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
~ Francis Atterbury
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.
~ Francois Fenelon
Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.
~ Arnold Palmer
I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.
~ Drew Barrymore
I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.
~ Leif Garrett