Adversity Quotes
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
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Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
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In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
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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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I can’t pretend to have worked my way up through adversity. I need the money not for food like other people, but to prove that I’m worth something. Jaws freed me to discover that a successful movie didn’t make a damn bit of difference to my life.
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You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'
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You're going to face adversity. It's not if - it's when.
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By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.
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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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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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Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
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The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
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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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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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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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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
