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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.
Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!
Goals give you a mark to shoot for and keep you motivated when you face adversity.
Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.
Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.
The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.
The difference between men who succeed or fail is their ability to handle pressure.
I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
I love adversity. It really reveals people, and I think I've handled it pretty good.
We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.
Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
'Seat at the Table' has expressed real adversity, struggle, and also triumph and joy.
You don't play 162 games without facing some adversity during the course of the year.
Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.
Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.
I try to be the same guy every day, no matter the situation, no matter the adversity.
A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.
One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is.
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.
We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.
I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.