Author Topic: ~ Adversity Quotes ~  (Read 19870 times)

Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Adversity Quotes ~
« Reply #105 on: January 21, 2016, 07:57:33 PM »
[highlight-text]All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations if they are accepted.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #106 on: January 21, 2016, 07:58:05 PM »
[highlight-text]I have brightness in my soul which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!

Jenny Lind

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« Reply #107 on: January 21, 2016, 07:58:45 PM »
[highlight-text]Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

B. C. Forbes

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« Reply #108 on: January 21, 2016, 08:00:08 PM »
[highlight-text]Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Frank Harris

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #109 on: January 21, 2016, 08:00:46 PM »
[highlight-text]Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Patti Smith

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« Reply #110 on: January 21, 2016, 08:01:27 PM »
[highlight-text]Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Thomas Edison

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« Reply #111 on: January 21, 2016, 08:02:34 PM »
[highlight-text]The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.

Confucius

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #112 on: January 21, 2016, 08:03:10 PM »
[highlight-text]From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

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« Reply #113 on: January 21, 2016, 08:03:43 PM »
[highlight-text]The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Francis Bacon

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #114 on: January 21, 2016, 08:04:17 PM »
[highlight-text]Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Fridiric Chopin

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #115 on: January 21, 2016, 08:06:03 PM »
[highlight-text]If you do things well do them better. Be daring be first be different be just.

Anita Roddick

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« Reply #116 on: January 21, 2016, 08:06:35 PM »
[highlight-text]Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #117 on: January 21, 2016, 08:07:09 PM »
[highlight-text]Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Septima Poinsette Clark

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« Reply #118 on: January 21, 2016, 08:07:51 PM »
[highlight-text]I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.

Bob Hope

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #119 on: January 21, 2016, 08:08:24 PM »
[highlight-text]Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude.

Eric Hoffer