Adversity Quotes
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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 -
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
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Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.
H. P. Blavatsky -
In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
Napoleon Hill -
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare -
I'm not fearful for myself, because I've seen adversity, and I can see it again. But I feel very upset and anguished when I see images of young lawyers beaten up.
Asma Jahangir -
No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids and a faith-based, boundless capacity for forgiveness.
Ed Schultz
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
Russell M. Nelson -
Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.
Willie Jolley -
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."
Francis Bacon -
Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
Tacitus -
The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even in adversity, because as they love God, and know how beautiful He is to those who love Him, they place all their confidence and find all their repose in Him alone.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.
Robert Falcon Scott -
Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.
Hal Elrod -
As days lengthen into weeks and months and even years of adversity, the hurt grows deeper. The Church cannot hope to save a man on Sunday if during the week it is a complacent witness to the crucifixion of his soul.
D. Todd Christofferson -
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton -
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Walt Disney -
Building discipline, earning respect and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you can be and how you go about being successful in life.
Walt Frazier
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He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
William Samuel Johnson -
Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.
Andre Ward -
Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.
Barbara Rose -
I can deal with adversity.
Mike Tyson