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The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. (Quote by - Epicurus)

Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement. (Quote by - Paul J. Fleyer)

I feel like we're definitely better than last year. We had some adversity last season, but everybody learned from it and I think we're more confident and excited about the season. (Quote by - Eric Berg)

We are disappointed that the MPC felt unable to take action to counter the adverse pressures affecting the economy. (Quote by - David Frost)

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

This has been a season where the NL West has been through a lot of adversity. Every team's had some severe injuries to big-name players. That's just the coincidence of the season, so it's nothing that you can change at this point. (Quote by - Mark Loretta)

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition. (Quote by - French Proverb)

Our girls fought through the adversity. (Quote by - Dan Taylor)

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. (Quote by - Samuel Daniel)

We have a young team, and our guys faced some adversity early in the meet but turned things around and did what they had to do. Our depth took over, and we won some close races. I was really pleased with the performance coming out of winter break. (Quote by - Dan Flannery)

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (Quote by - Churton Collins)

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. (Quote by - Washington Irving)

What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners. (Quote by - Gerald McKnight)

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

We're making sure the language in the bill doesn't have an adverse impact on the metropolitan CIDs. So far, there's nothing to alarm us [in] how the bill is proposed, but we're still monitoring. (Quote by - Yvonne Williams)

I think it's definitely taught us a lot, .. Last year, having some injuries, you learn how to deal with adversity. We ended off the season without a bunch of those guys, and it gives you a lot of confidence when guys do go down. (Quote by - Dan Morgan)

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. (Quote by - Robert James Waller)

This is because they acted adversely to Allah and His Apostle; and whoever acts adversely to Allah and His Apostle-- then surely Allah is severe in requiting (evil). (Quote by - quran)

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. (Quote by - Bible)

I think we've been really good this year when we've had adversity like that, being able to take the negative and find the positive in it before we even left the track, .. I mean, we were in a better mind set as a team leaving Charlotte Saturday night than we were when we ran 18th at Dover [in September, in the second round of the Chase] and had our problems there. We had our heads down. (Quote by - Tony Stewart)

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)

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