A Quotes
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“Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.”
“Adversity makes men remember God.”
“Adversity makes men wise but not rich.”
“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
“Adversity makes strange bedfellows.”
“Adversity makes you embrace passion.”
“Adversity no longer exists within the subject, which has become indifferent to misfortune and to itself. Between the object and the subject of vengeance, no demarcation. A single, dual being, and nothing is separate.”
Source: Fragments
“Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.”
“Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.”
Source: Crocus in the Snow: A Book of Poems
“Adversity often defines dignity.”
“Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.”
Source: True bills
“Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.”
“Adversity only makes us stronger.
Every adversity we overcome makes our spirit and soul grow stronger.”
“Adversity or opportunity is university.”
“Adversity prunes the pages of growth and prosperity in the book of your life. You only have to determine how you shape each page.”
“Adversity quickens the mind, awakens the spirit and strength the soul.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Adversity Quotient author Paul Stoltz compares success with a mountain. Only climbers get to the top. The campers, those who get part of the way up and decide to stay where they are, will never feel as alive or as proud as the climbers. As the philosopher said, it takes courage to grow up and to achieve your full potential.”
Source: Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
“Adversity refined a man like gold.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Adversity refined us like gold.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Adversity reminds men of religion.”
“Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.”
“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”
“Adversity reveals our true strength and resilience. Embrace it as a catalyst for growth.”
“Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.”
“Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.”
“Adversity sometimes gives us a greater sense of conviction than conviction itself.”
“Adversity tests the limit of our strength.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Adversity tests the limit of your strength.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Adversity tests the sincerity of friends”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.”
“Adversity tests what the soul can endure.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Adversity toughens manhood--and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempted from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.' -- PATRICK HENRY, Letter to an unknown recipient, June 2, 1790”
Source: Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
“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.”
“Adversity will do something too you or for you.”
“Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.”
Source: Ye Are My Friends
“Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.”
Source: Ye Are My Friends
“Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.”
“Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.”
“Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.”
“Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.”
“Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.”
“Advertenty comes from suffering.”—Syed Rehman Hayder”
“Advertise, or go under.”
Source: Murder Must Advertise
“advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.”
“Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.”
Source: Aubrey Beardsley: a slave to beauty
“Advertisement shouldn’t look like information, it should look like a promise.”
“Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius
“Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”