Adversity Quotes
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon
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We've got to be able to overcome adversity. We've got to step up and accept the challenge when things go wrong. Instead of moping about it and dropping our heads, we've got to accept the challenge and keep fighting, and we're not doing that right now.
B. R. Hayden
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Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
Dalai Lama
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It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
Bill Vaughan
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
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The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
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Adversity is a stimulus.
James Broughton
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No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
Brooke Shields
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When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.
Eddie Alvarez
