Adversity Quotes
1383 Adversity quotes by 792 unique authors
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
— John Wooden
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
— Virginia Woolf
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
— Mao Zedong
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
— Zig Ziglar
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As…
— William Shakespeare
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To perceive is to suffer.
— Aristotle
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On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in…
— David Sedaris
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To live is to war with trolls.
— Henrik Ibsen
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Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
— James A. Baldwin
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How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each…
— Stephen Covey
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his…
— Charles de Gaulle
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Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
— Walt Disney
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I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides…
— Daphne du Maurier
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
— Arthur Golden
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