Adversity Quotes

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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop… — Stephen Covey
If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so… — Anne Bradstreet
Everyone who has ever overcome hardship or adversity has done so in large part because he or she has chosen, consciously or unconsciously, to "let… — Rod Stryker
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we… — Walter Inglis Anderson
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter. — James F. Cooper
A good resolve will make any port. — Horace
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. — William Shakespeare
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. — Oscar Wilde
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. — Max Ehrmann
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Problems are messages. — Shakti Gawain
Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something… — Charles Kettering
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to… — Lucy Larcom
Morality begins at the point of a gun. — Mao Zedong
Charity isn't a good substitute for justice. — Jonathan Kozol
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him. — Elwyn Brooks White
I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty… — D. H. Lawrence
People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them. — Cal Thomas
Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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