Ovid Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Adversity Quotes

Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

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I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

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I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

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When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

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Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.

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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

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We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.

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Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

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Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity.

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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

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Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

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