Adversity Quotes
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He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
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God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless
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I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
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Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.
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Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
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Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
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Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.
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If you choose to go hard after God, you’ll experience more adversity than you would encounter if you played it safe, but you’ll delight in more power and love than you ever dreamed possible.
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In adversity man is saved by hope.
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Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.
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Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.
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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity
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Adversity creates comedy.
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It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.
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We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation.
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Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
