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Quotations about adversity

Abraham LincolnNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

 - Abraham Lincoln

Tags:   adversity  character  power  

Stephen KingHarry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.

 - Stephen King

Tags:   adversity  boyfriend  fear  Harry Potter  strength  Twilight  

EpicurusYou don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

 - Epicurus

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Francis QuarlesIn the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

 - Francis Quarles

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As gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal shown, so the hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity.

 - Pietro Metastasio

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Niccolo MachiavelliIt is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

 - Niccolò Machiavelli

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

 - Horace

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John KeatsDo you not see how necessary a world of pain and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

 - John Keats

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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.

 - Soren Kierkegaard

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

 - Simone Weil

Tags:   adversity  misfortune  suffering  

David GogginsThe Buddha famously said that life is suffering. I'm not a Buddhist, but I know what he meant and so do you. To exist in this world, we must contend with humiliation, broken dreams, sadness, and loss. That's just nature. Each specific life comes with its own personalized portion of pain. It's coming for you. You can't stop it. And you know it.

 - David Goggins

Tags:   adversity  Buddhism  suffering