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Quotes About Adversity

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.
~ Stevie Nicks
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
~ Viola Davis
Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.
~ Desi Arnaz
Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.
~ Ralph Marston
If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.
~ Henry Cavill
Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.
~ Savielly Tartakower
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
~ Wendell Willkie
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
~ Walt Whitman
There are no hard times for good ideas.
~ Harry Gordon Selfridge
Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
~ Andy Grove
There is no better game in the world when you are in good company, and no worse game when you are in bad company.
~ Tommy Bolt
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
~ Ovid
People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.
~ Kay Warren
Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.
~ Nick Hornby
The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.
~ Saib Tabrizi
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
~ Amish Tripathi
Good businesses can survive a little bad management.
~ Charlie Munger
All the world loves a good loser.
~ Kin Hubbard
Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.
~ Beverly LaHaye
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!
~ Moliere
Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.
~ Gary Renard