Adversity Quotes

• "One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
  By: Albert Schweitzer
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• "You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."
  By: Walt Schmidt
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• "I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."
  By: Joan Rivers
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• "Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?"
  By: Qur'an
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• "The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do."
  By: Rosie Perez
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• "I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way."
  By: J. C. (James Cash) Penney
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• "Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
  By: Leroy "Satchel" Paige
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• "In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way."
  By: George Leonard
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• "If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
  By: Jean Kerr
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• "Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."
  By: Charles "Tremendous" Jones
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• "I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it."
  By: Janet Jackson
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• "In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win."
  By: Dustin Hoffman
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• "Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."
  By: Vance Havner
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• "Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
  By: Edward Everett Hale
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• "Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."
  By: Robert C. Gallagher
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• "What is to give light must endure the burning."
  By: Viktor E. Frankl
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