Adversity Quotes

• "What is to give light must endure the burning."
  By: Viktor E. Frankl
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• "If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug."
  By: Francisco D'Anconia
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• "What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."
  By: Kitty O'neill Collins
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• "They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]"
  By: Bible
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• "It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."
  By: Arnold Bennet
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• "When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light."
  By: H.K. Barclay
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• "You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
  By: Barbara De Angelis
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• "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."
  By: Louisa May Alcott
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• "I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it."
  By: Bryan Adams
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• "When reduced by adversity, a man forgets the lofty tone and supercilious language of prosperity."
  By: Unknown
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• "The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly welded by the fiercest fire."
  By: Unknown
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• "As the ant does not wend her way to empty barns, so few friends will be found to haunt the place of departed wealth."
  By: Unknown
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• "All is well as long as the sun shines and the fair breath of heaven gently wafts us to our own purpose; but if you will try the excellency and feel the work of faith, place the man in a persecution."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us."
  By: Jonathan Swift, On the Death of Dr. Swift, a paraphrase of Rochefoucauld's "Maxim"
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• "Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him."
  By: Laurence Sterne
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