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Quotes About Adversity

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
~ Giacomo Casanova
After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life - and that proved hard. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising.
~ Katharine Gun
People leave United and tend to drift out of the game. I actually think I became a better player and a better person. I proved a lot of doubters wrong.
~ Phil Neville
I proved to myself that I can overcome a lot of things that probably would have broken some people.
~ La La Anthony
Aggression has proven to get people in trouble, in many ways, with the champions.
~ Luke Rockhold
The hardest moments of your life in your 20s will provide some of the greatest lessons that will come in handy later.
~ Stacy Brown-Philpot
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.
~ Euripides
No one who goes against her can win.
~ Euripides
No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.
~ Euripides
Yes, I can endure guilt, however horrible; The laughter of my enemies I will not endure. Now
~ Euripides
And I'm a woman made of sorrow.
~ Euripides
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~ Euripides
I'd never want my muse to be a singer of nothing but disaster.
~ Euripides
Human misery must somewhere have a stop:             there is no wind that always blows a storm;             great good fortune comes to failure in the end.
~ Euripides
Behold, I am silent: for what need is there that, falsely speaking, I add shamelessness to misfortune?
~ Euripides
For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.
~ Euripides
necessity breaks even the strong.
~ Euripides
Every thing appears terrible even to the bold, when his foot shall pass across a hostile country.
~ Euripides
But you will bear your sickness more easily both with quiet, and with a noble temper, for it is necessary for mortals to suffer misery.
~ Euripides
You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies. 'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika.
~ Eva Ibbotson
Sometimes life makes you older than your age.
~ Eva Marie Everson
They'd taught him how to milk cows,and now they expected him to tame lions.
~ Evan Hunter
Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs Ape.
~ Evelyn Waugh