Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Adversity.

The repository contains 71 quotes in the category “Adversity.”
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The bumps in the road just make the ride more fun.

Jorj Wager

When in danger, smile.

Gavin Young
1928 — 2001

Don’t tell me how rough the seas are. Just get the ship in.

Joe Gardi

Life is mostly froth and bubble, but two things stand like stone, kindness in another’s trouble and courage in your own.

Princess Diana
1961 — 1997

All of life’s big problems include the words “indictment” or “inoperable.” Everything else is small stuff.

Alton Brown
1962 —     

May you have just enough clouds in your life to be left with a beautiful sunset.

Unknown

We’re all in this alone.

Lily Tomlin
1939 —     

It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Unknown

Be thankful if your job is a little harder than you like. A razor can’t be sharpened on a piece of velvet.

Unknown

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Henry David Thoreau
1817 — 1862

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

Katherine Mansfield
1888 — 1923

The difference between a rut and a coffin is the depth of the hole.

Unknown

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Unknown

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe
1749 — 1832

The more they tell me I can’t the more determined I am to do it.

Unknown

If you’re going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Unknown

When I hear someone say life is hard, I’m always tempted to say, “Compared to what?”

Unknown

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

English Proverb

For the past two weeks, you’ve been reading about a bad break. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for.

Lou Gehrig
1903 — 1941

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