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Quotes About Adversity

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.
~ Mary J. Blige
Every time we get to the finish line they move it. Every time.
~ Unknown
Everything's bad until it's good. If this is what you really want, then you just have to hang in there until you get to the good times.
~ Unknown
Mary Jo Putney
~ Unknown
Sufficient unto the day were the evils thereof.
~ Mary Jo Putney
God has used those tough times to make me stronger to help me grow spiritually
~ Unknown
Every silver lining has a cloud.
~ Mary Kay Ash
People fail forward to success.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Things tent to get worse, before they got worse
~ Unknown
Well, that could've been worse.
~ Unknown
Fame may pass over my head; money may escape me; my one friend may fail me; every hope may fold its tent and steal away; Happiness may remain a sealed book; every remnant of human ties may vanish; I may find myself an outcast; good things held out to me may suddenly be withdrawn; the stars may go out, one by one; the sun may go dark; yet still I may hold upright my head, if I have but my steak—and my onions.
~ Mary MacLane
Pioneers do not as a rule settle for the comfortable corners of life, and Maria Sklodowska was no exception.
~ Unknown
Love had done this to her, for the second time. Love was bad for her. There must be certain people who were allergic to love, and she was one of them. Not only was it bad for her; it made her bad; it poisoned her. Before she knew him, not only had she been far, far happier but she had been nicer. Loving him was turning her into an awful person, a person she hated.
~ Mary McCarthy
I can only offer this advice: if you expect sunny paths all the time and no storms you will know disillusionment, but if you are prepared for rough paths and storms you will cope and will know the pleasure of achievement
~ Unknown
It's clearly easier to get the snake out of the sack than it is to shove it back.
~ Unknown
Misfortunes make us wise
~ Unknown
Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford
This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford
The weaklings were winnowed out by these great storms, and the chastened souls of those who survived knew little of pleasure.
~ Unknown
There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.
~ Unknown
Nunca he entendido cómo llegaste tan lejos. ?Drogas. Drogado de pies a cabeza.
~ Mary Renault