Adversity Quotes
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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.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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.
Jillian Hervey
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
King Solomon
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I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
Paula Cole
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
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As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.
Francis Quarles
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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.
William Arthur Ward
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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.
Lajos Kossuth
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Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
Napoleon Hill
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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.
Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius
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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.
Lorraine Gary
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
David Hare
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
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For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.
Jim Gray
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You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
Og Mandino
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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.
Lucille Clifton
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It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
Jimmy Buffett
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In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
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Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
Confucius