Quotes and Sayings About Adversity
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We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
-- Aaron Levie -
Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.
-- Abbi Glines -
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.
-- Abby SunderlandSource : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
-- Abu Bakr -
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Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of No Way.
-- Adrian PetersonSource : "Run Like Adrian Peterson". Interview with Andrew Daniels, www.menshealth.com. November 14, 2011.
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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
-- Aesop -
Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.
-- Aimee Mullins -
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
-- Aimee Mullins -
Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.
-- Aimee Mullins -
If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.
-- Al-Ghazali -
By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.
-- Albert Bandura -
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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
-- Albert SchweitzerSource : Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics
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Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
-- Alec-TweedieSource : Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
-- Alexander Pope -
But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.
-- Alistair Begg -
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
-- Allen Klein -
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I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.
-- Alvin R. Dyer -
The prosecution responsible for the many discrepancies in their work must be made to answer for them, for Raffaele's sake, my sake and most especially for the sake of Meredith's family. Our hearts go out to them. No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity.
-- Amanda KnoxSource : Amanda Knox Retrial: "Italian Court Rules To Re-Hear Murder Case" by Chris Rogers, hollywoodlife.com. March 26, 2013.
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Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart.
-- Ambrose -
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. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
-- Ambrose Bierce