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• Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

  Giorgio Armani

  Life, Change, Philosophy

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• By Allah, whenever I endure any adversity I gain four blessings of Allah in exchange. The first of them is, when the adversity is not caused by my sin (virtue is earned). The second, when the adversity is not greater than my sin (virtue is earned). The third, when I am not deprived of contentment (virtue is earned). And the fourth, I hope for virtues thereby.

  Umar

  Wisdom, Islamic, Blessing

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• Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.

  Marv Levy

  Football, Opportunity, Nfl

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• Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

  Cathy Freeman

  Leadership, Powerful, Disappointment

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• No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

  Brooke Ellison

  Being Strong, Encouraging, Hope

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• He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Extremes, Knows

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.23

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• I can deal with adversity.

  Mike Tyson

  Deals, I Can

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• Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Prosperity, Fidelity, Asks

  "Agamemnon". Book by Seneca the Younger, 934,

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• Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

  Margaret of Valois

  Success, Crowds, Prosperity

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• Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

  Patrick Henry

  Men, Evil, Characteristics

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• Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Success, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 16, 2014

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• It will always hurt to be laughed at, snubbed, ignored or attacked by others. But I would remind you that the human personality grows through adversity, provided it is not crushed in the process.

  James Dobson

  Hurt, Personality, Ignored

  Dr. James Dobson (2015). “Building Confidence in Your Child”, p.63, Revell

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• No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Suffering, Done

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.270

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• Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

  Confucius

  Happy Life, Men, Long

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• Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Doe, Frail, Shows

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• The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

  Walter Scott

  Presence Of Mind, Tempest, Oaks

  Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics

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• Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.

  Gay Hendricks

  Inspirational, Pain, Struggle

  Gay Hendricks, PhD (2009). “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

  Rona Barrett

  Inspiring, Strong, Health

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• Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beautiful, Pain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Nature, and Other Addresses”

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• In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Middle

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• Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspiring, Children, Setback

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• Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Perfection, Connections, Needs

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• The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Selfish, Light

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• Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Jesus, Pain, Disappointment

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• True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Loyalty, Failure, Character

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