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Quotes About Adversity

But desperate people find courage.
~ Ken Follett
We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.
~ Dalai Lama
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
~ Virgil
Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage
~ Napoleon Hill
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
~ Franz Kafka
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.
~ James Forrestal
Courage mounteth with occasion.
~ William Shakespeare
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
~ Wendell Phillips
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.
~ John Bunyan
Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]
~ Plautus
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
~ William Shakespeare
Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.
~ Pietro Metastasio
Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.
~ Michael Josephson
My courage does not depend on the weather.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
~ Plautus
Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives. To strive to live each day with serenity and courage.
~ Wilferd Peterson
At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.
~ Suzanne Collins
Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.
~ Aeschylus
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
~ Vicki Baum
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
~ Jean-Francois Regnard
And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson