Adversity Quotes
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We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.
William H. Macy
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Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
Soren Kierkegaard
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So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.
Francis Quarles
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Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.
Carol Browner
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
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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."
Francis Bacon
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The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
Horace Greeley
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When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.
Esther Hicks
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Art is man's refuge from adversity.
Menander
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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.
Seneca the Younger
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You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
Erik Weihenmayer
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
Seneca the Younger
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If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.
Milo Ventimiglia
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You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity.
Steve Nash
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Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.
Cathy Freeman
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I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.
Sandra Bullock
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Walt Disney
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Adversity is the mother of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
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True strength is shown by the person who remains humble, quiet, & positive throughout all adversity and maintains their path towards success.
Behdad Sami
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We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret.
Wilma Mankiller
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Tough guys toughen up when faced with adversity. So he flexes his gag reflex and steps inside.
Bradley Sands