Adversity Quotes
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I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.
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Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
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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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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
