Adversity Quotes
1383 quotes by 829 authors
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them…
— Pietro Aretino
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
— Aristotle
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle
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I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
— Andrea Arnold
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
— Arthur Ashe
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that…
— Arthur Ashe
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
— Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
— Francis Bacon
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
— Francis Bacon
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
— Abu Bakr
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
— John Quincy Adams
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I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.
— James Beard
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
— Josh Billings
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Politics ruins the character.
— Otto von Bismarck
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
— Garth Brooks
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