Quotes about adversity

"In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win."

Hoffman, Dustin on adversity   

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

Holtz, Lou on adversity
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"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

Homer on adversity
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"The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses."

Horace on adversity
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"As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it."

Horace on adversity
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"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

Horace on adversity
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"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."

Horace on adversity   

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

Horace on adversity
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"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

Horton, Doug on adversity
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"Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him."

Howe, Edgar Watson on adversity
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

Hugo, Victor on adversity
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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it."

Jackson, Janet on adversity
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

James, William on adversity
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"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."

Johnson on adversity
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"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."

Johnson, Samuel on adversity
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on adversity
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"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity"

Jonson, Ben on adversity
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"Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture."

Joshee, Anandabai on adversity   

"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

Jung, Carl on adversity
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"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on adversity
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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

Keats, John on adversity
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"As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man."

Kempis, Thomas on adversity   

"Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is."

Kempis, Thomas on adversity
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"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

Kennedy, Rose F. on adversity
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"If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

Kerr, Jean on adversity
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"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."

Kierkegaard, Søren on adversity
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."

Kissinger, Henry on adversity   

"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."

Landers, Ann on adversity
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"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."

Lawrence, Thomas E. on adversity
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"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."

Leighton, Robert on adversity
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"In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way."

Leonard, George on adversity
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"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on adversity   

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."

Lowell, James Russell on adversity
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"God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven."

Macdonald, George on adversity
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Malcolm X on adversity
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"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."

Maltz, Maxwell on adversity
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"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."

Mandino, Og on adversity
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