Adversity Quotes
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My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.
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America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.
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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 bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.
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Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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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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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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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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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
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The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
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Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.
