Adversity Quotes
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Its time to smile in this adversity and feel gratitude for everything we have around us.
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The Muppets are always really positive when they come across adversity, and they always have the ability to see the good in people.
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World records aren't broken in practice, and competitive environments and adversity are the birthplace of champions.
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In any adversity gold can find friends.
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.
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The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?
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When I wrote "Lead Me," I had no idea that God was preparing me to lead my family through a season of great adversity. It was only a month after Pieces of a Real Heart was released that my wife, Sarah, and I found out that our son had a severe, life-threatening heart defect.
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You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
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A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.
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Nevadans, and all Americans, are resilient. Overcoming adversity is a part of our national heritage.
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The journey is never ending. There's always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what's right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.
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It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.
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Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
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I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
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If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.
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The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
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Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
