#adversity

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. ↗

— Heather Mills

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Adversity is the first path to truth. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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There is no education like adversity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. ↗

— George Washington

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Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming. ↗

— Gibson

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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ↗

— John Wooden

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