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Quotes About Adversity

It is easier to die bravely than to live so.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.
~ Ruta Sepetys
Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
~ Seneca the Elder
Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.
~ John Donne
One Child's courage to survive.
~ Dave Pelzer
The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.
~ William Shakespeare
Necessity does the work of courage.
~ George Eliot
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.
~ C. S. Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
~ C. S. Lewis
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
~ Victor Hugo
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is not the absence of fear, it's to feel the fear and face it anyway.
~ Jeanette Coron
My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
~ O. Henry
Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.
~ Unknown
Many become brave when brought to bay.
~ Norwegian proverb
You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.
~ Joe Torre
To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.
~ Anonymous
Many become brave when brought to bag.
~ Norwegian proverb
When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.
~ Jewish proverb
Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have.
~ Don Lemon
Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.
~ Bliss Carman