Adversity Quotes
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In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've been knocked down.
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Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
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America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.
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I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
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It's a tough pill to swallow but we can either run from adversity or we can face our adversity head on and conquer it. And that's what I plan to do.
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Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer... that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.
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There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.
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I definitely thrive off adversity. I know it's always up from there.
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It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), 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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The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
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You're going to face adversity. It's not if - it's when.
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Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
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Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.
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We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.
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You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'
