Adversity Quotes
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A man I am cross'd with adversity.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
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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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When our burdens are grievous to be borne, when we face a world in which it seems that there is only struggle and no rest, I hope we can remember the immense strength of our sisterhood, the reservoirs that we have within us, and the unfailing wellspring of the Savior’s love for us, even in the midst of adversity.
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The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and hurtfulness of sin; and therefore now I will mourn, not because I am crossed, but because I have deserved this cross, and a worse too."
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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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Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.
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I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.
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Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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There is no life without challenge or adversity. So we have to decide whether to treat it as a friend or a foe.
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Art is man's refuge from adversity.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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In so many things, growth comes from adversity.
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A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.
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Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
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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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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.
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Everybody can have a bad game, and we did. These guys have all proven that they can handle adversity. We're in the midst of a little adversity.
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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.
