Adversity Quotes

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Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are… — Grant Achatz
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a… — George Washington
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a… — George Washington
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them. — Proverbs
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. — Unknown Author
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. (Psalms 109:4) — Bible
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties. — Unknown Author
Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them. — Ethiopian Proverb
OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.… — Ambrose Bierce
What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a… — Unknown Author
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to… — Unknown Author
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so… — French Proverb
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is… — Oliver Goldsmith
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 Anderson
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. — Aristotle
If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the… — Cavett Robert
Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won… — Lord Byron
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring — Chinese Proverbs
Life isn't about a single moment of great triumph and attainment. It's about the trials and errors that get you there the blood, sweat, and… — Melchor Lim
A bad day is just a bad day. Choose not to make it anything more. Times of adversity will inevitably affect the conditions in which… — Melchor Lim

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