Adversity Quotes
These are some of the best 'Adversity' quotations and sayings.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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A smooth sea never made a skilful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill, and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
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Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cowards, draws out the faculties of the wise and industrious, puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the idle industrious.
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Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
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Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
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Adversity is like the period of the former and of the latter rain, - cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal; yet from that season have their birth the flower and the fruit, the date, the rose, and the pomegranate.
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