Overcoming adversity quotes

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◆ There is no education like adversity.

- Benjamin Disraeli100

◆ In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

- John Churton Collins100

◆ The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.

- Danish Proverb99

◆ Obstacles are great incentives.

- Jules Michelet99

◆ There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

- Ovid99

◆ In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

- Albert Careb99

◆ Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

- James Sharp99

◆ A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

- Chinese Proverb99

◆ Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser99

◆ Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.

- E. E. Hale99

◆ What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

- Proverb99

◆ Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Adversity is the first path to truth.

- Lord Byron99

◆ It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.

- Louis Kossuth99

◆ Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

- Nelson A. Rockefeller99