Adversity Quotes


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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
Author: Shakespeare Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes English Dramatist Quotes
"A wretched soul bruised with adversity,We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;But were we burdened with like weight of pain,As much, or more, we should ourselves complain."
Author: Shakespeare Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression, that may be"
Author: Franklin Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
Author: Disney Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes American Cartoonist Quotes
"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."
Author: Hugo Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes French Author Quotes
"Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory."
Author: Peale Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes Fights And Fighting Quotes
"Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle."
Author: Peale Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes Enthusiasm Quotes
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
Author: Nin Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes American Author Quotes
"I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments."
Author: Frank Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."
Author: Santayana Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes American Philosopher Quotes
"Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, And good in everything."
Author: Shakespeare Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
Author: James Quotes Category: Acceptance Quotes Adversity Quotes
"Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm"
Author: Peale Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy"
Author: Shakespeare Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."
Author: Rilke Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"The proof of gold is fire..."
Author: Franklin Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
Author: Shelley Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
Author: Thoreau Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes American Author Quotes
"By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity another man's, I mean"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes


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