Adversity Quotes
1383 quotes by 792 authors
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
— Cesare Pavese
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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
— Napoleon Hill
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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
— Samuel Johnson
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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
— Brigham Young
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Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
— James Reston
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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
— Henry Fielding
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
— Publilius Syrus
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The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little…
— Alan Gregg
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
— Samuel Daniel
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A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
— King Solomon
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I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
— John Hawley
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No news is good news.
— Ludovic Halevy
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He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
— Ben Jonson
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
— Lactantius
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is…
— Henry Fielding
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Everybody makes mistakes.
— Dave Pelzer
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These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care…
— Harold Ford, Jr.
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In so many things, growth comes from adversity.
— Michael Huffington
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