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Quotes About Adversity

Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I don't need you to slay my dragons. I can perfectly do it on my own.
~ Paige Gray
Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits.
~ Jerry Dunn
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
~ Vince Lombardi
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument
~ Ratan Tata
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
~ Aristotle
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
~ C. S. Lewis
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
~ Dorothy Height
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.
~ Wilma Mankiller
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
~ T.S. Eliot
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
~ Dolly Parton
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
~ Vince Lombardi
Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
You will never reach your destination if you stop & throw stones at every dog that barks...Better keep biscuits & Move on.
~ Dhirubhai Ambani
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it
~ John Lennon
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
~ Napoleon Hill
If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.
~ Beyonce Knowles
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.
~ Mike Todd
Look at those who have talked about you and doubted you. They are your inspirational reason to succeed.
~ Jon Jones
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
~ Albert Einstein