Adversity Quotes
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted Turner
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.
Seneca the Younger
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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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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
Hannah Storm
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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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Between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.
Amelia B. Edwards
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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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Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.
Lou Holtz
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Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
Scott Hamilton
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Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.
David Petraeus
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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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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
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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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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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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
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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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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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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
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When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
Chip Conley
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Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.
John Calvin
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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.