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Adversity Quotes

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. - Edgar Allan Poe If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. - Terry Goodkind Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. - Sherrilyn Kenyon However mean your life is, meet it and live it. - Henry David Thoreau

I love those who can smile in trouble... - Leonardo da Vinci Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis Bacon Sr We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. - Titus Livy

Desire Quotes

When I desire you a part of me is gone. - Anne Carson Desires satisfied are but as seeds sown a second time. - Edward Cunsel We should not desire the impossible. - Leonardo DA Vinci The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not? - Jiddu Krishnamurti

He is fortunate who wants the things he knows he can have. - Lewis F. Korns The desire of the righteous ends only in good, but the hope of the wicked in wrath. - Proverb It is not poverty which produces sorrow, but desire. - Epictetus My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. - Bela Karolyi

Despair Quotes

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. - George Eliot He who has never hoped can never despair. - George Bernard Shaw The person who lives by hope will die by despair. - Italian Proverb Action is the antidote to despair. - Joan Baez

Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. - Thomas Carlyle There is nobody more terrible than the desperate. - Alexander Suvorov Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. - Edmund Burke

Difficulty Quotes

No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope. - Dr Drew Pinsky Where there is no difficulty there is no praise. - Samuel Johnson Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. - Samuel Johnson

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. - Sid Caesar Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings To live is to war with trolls. - Henrik Ibsen Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. - Ted Turner

Effort Quotes

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. - Tom Robbins All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired. - Chuck Palahniuk There is no substitute for hard work. - Thomas A. Edison If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all? - Joe Namath

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort. - Olen Steinhauer Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent van Gogh Each man is the smith of his own fortune. - Unknown

Failure Quotes

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. - Elbert Hubbard Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. - George Cukor

There is no failure. Only feedback. - Robert Allen It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. - Anonymous Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dalí

Faith Quotes

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. - Anonymous Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. - J.R.R. Tolkien Faith is a passionate intuition. - William Wordsworth To me faith means not worrying. - John Dewey

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore Faith makes things possible, not easy. - Anonymous WFaith is the quiet cousin of courage. - Judith Hanson Lasater Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. - Kahlil Gibran

Family Quotes

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! - Albert Einstein The family is a haven in a heartless world. - Christopher Lasch Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Leo Tolstoy

WI sustain myself with the love of family. - Maya Angelou There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. - Jerry Seinfeld Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. - Mitch Albom Family is more than blood. - Cassandra Clare

Fantasy Quotes

Don't expect anything original from an echo. - Anonymous There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. - Anonymous The strongest nation on earth is your imagi-nation. - Matt Furey

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. - George Scialabba Trapped by reality, freed by imagination. - Nicolas Manetta The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. - Edward Albee

Fortune Quotes

Fortunate are those who have learned the best way to get is first to give through useful service. - Anonymous All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever. - Anonymous I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. - Leo Tolstoy Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. - Thomas Alva Edison One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. - Robert A Heinlein The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. - Lew Wallace