Adversity Quotes
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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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.
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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.
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Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
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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.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.
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Players that tend to respond to adversity the right way and triumph in the end are players with strong character. If you have enough guys like that in the clubhouse, you have an edge on the other team.
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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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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.
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Adversity is the mother of progress.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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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.
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Art is man's refuge from adversity.
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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.
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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.
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True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
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Whenever we are going through adversity, we should be able to overcome it, that's what kind of team we should be moving forward.
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You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
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The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
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Tough guys toughen up when faced with adversity. So he flexes his gag reflex and steps inside.
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To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.
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You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity.
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God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
