Adversity Quotes
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Lactantius
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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
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You fight dandelions all week-end, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.
Hal Borland
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Between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.
Amelia B. Edwards
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
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Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.
Paul Tsongas
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Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect.
Ernest Holmes
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Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.
Lou Holtz
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There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
Lou Holtz
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
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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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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
Harmon Killebrew
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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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When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
Napoleon Hill
