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Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes. — Tom Cochrane

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. — John Churton Collins

In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with. — Brandi L. Bates

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity. — Philemon

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average. — Mike Tyson

Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity! — Napoleon Hill

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Prayer define the sacred beauties of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure. — Edwin Louis Cole

You can't just run away from uncomfortable situation. You have to develop new strategy to graciously handle the situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Adversity could be ignored but compassion slipped easily through — C. Marten-Zerf

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him. — E.B. White

With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity. — Franz Stampfl

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself. — Annie Proulx

Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit. — Napoleon Hill

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity. — Abraham Lincoln

Art is man's refuge from adversity. — Menander

Adversity in life teaches you. — Tony Gonzalez

You can create opportunity out of importunity.You can create prosperity out of adversity.U can create something out of nothing — Ikechukwu Joseph

Big challenges provide big opportunities. — Ian Usher

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler. — Teresa Of Avila

There are opportunities in every struggle. Look for these opportunities and make it great. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is strength of soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If our team doesn't face enough adversity early on in a season, I create it. Nothing builds a team like adversity. — Mike Tomlin

Endurance is spiritual. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live real strong in union with Christ".

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You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventures.-You can creste prosperity out of adversity — Ikechukwu Joseph

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself. — Shia Labeouf

Every challenge you conquer, will make you courageous. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never allow adversity to define you. May you find hope and strength to graciously overcome the adversity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. — Chanakya

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. — Robert Breault

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. — Edgar Allan Poe

We can only recreate ourselves with renewal of our mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly. — Arthur Bloch

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity. — Timothy Keller

How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness. — Ivan Panin

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. — Criss Jami

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. — John H. Vincent

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't. — T.I.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power. — Abraham Lincoln

I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides — Frank Herbert

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be. — Kerri Walsh

When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you. — Joel Osteen

In the darkness time, the soul evolves to give light to the spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them. — Charles Caleb Colton

Life is a sacred enduring journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not. — Henry Fielding

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Great tests precede great blessings. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him. — Teresa Of Avila

Freedom means choosing your burden. — Hephzibah Menuhin

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. — Lactantius

To not give a fuck about adversity, you must first give a fuck about something more important than adversity. Imagine — Mark Manson

In any adversity gold can find friends. — Amelia Barr

The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully. — Lauren Mackler

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity. — Mollie Marti

You have to go through the spiritual fires to know the strength of your faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship. — Soren Kierkegaard

adversity is a great tool to self discovery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'! — W.O. Wainwright

A person who smiles in the face of adversity ... probably has a scapegoat. — Stephen Hawking

For those who dare to dream, embrace their nightmares and face adversity. — Jalissa Pastorius

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Every experience is a book to be written. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is what you think of it. — Debasish Mridha

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities. — John C. Maxwell

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties. — Robert Breault

I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive. — Sandi Bachom

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them. — Nicholas Ling

The soul gets tougher with every endure situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. — Shannon L. Alder

Hope is a trust in a Supreme. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity. — Charles Spurgeon

Morality begins at the point of a gun. — Mao Zedong

When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest. — Yvonne Pierre

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance. — Seneca The Younger

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. — Rosalind Russell

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me. — Mother Teresa

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. — William Shakespeare

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of. — Howard Schultz

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies — Aristotle.

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity. — Alistair Begg

Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation. — Arnold J. Toynbee

I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity. — Jim Butcher

There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit — Napoleon Hill

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that — Kathrine Switzer

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must. — Alex Faickney Osborn

Many times I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best. — Hayley Wickenheiser

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. — Carol Burnett

Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown — Steve Hilts

Trust in God gives self-power. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Adversity awakens the spirit of every man. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external. — Criss Jami

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. — Robert A. Burton