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Quotes About Adversity

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.
~ Truman Capote
For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.
~ Alanis Morissette
You can't do anything about them.
~ Alex Ferguson
Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
~ Andy Grove
I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.
~ Anne Frank
Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.
~ Anthony D. Williams
If you learn from a loss you have not lost.
~ Austin O'Malley
You fall off the horse and you get back on.
~ Bethany Hamilton
But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.
~ Bill Simmons
... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.
~ Charles Dickens
You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.
~ Daniel Behrman
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
~ Edith Wharton
More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.
~ William Arthur Ward
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
~ Napoleon Hill
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
~ Charlie Chaplin
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
~ Helen Keller
In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.
~ Oprah Winfrey
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
~ Woody Allen
A desire to choose the hardest might be a confession of weakness in itself.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.
~ Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh
God made me blind and unable to walk. Big deal!
~ Patrick Henry Hughes
Your response to adversity is what positions you for promotion
~ Cynthia Patterson
IT'S NOT CARDS YOU ARE DEALT, BUT HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME!
~ D.D. Sherman, Judge Me Not