Napoleon Hill Quotes
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus -
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson -
The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
Adam Carolla -
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone -
In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
Abu Bakr -
For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
Walter Kirn -
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Lactantius -
Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
Adam Cohen -
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving -
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
Laura Wade -
Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
Dan Millman
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
Kapil Sibal -
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo -
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
W. H. Auden -
Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?
Dada Vaswani -
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus -
Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
Samuel Adams
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I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
Zubin Mehta -
People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.
Andrew Yan -
Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Stephen Covey -
I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.
Jason Mraz -
Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.
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