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A Select Collection of Quotes on Overcoming Adversity

By Simran Khurana, About.com

John Neal: Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.

John Maxwell: Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

American Proverb: Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Unknown Author: Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Alexander Pope: Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Sir Winston Churchill: Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

English Proverb: Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

Welsh Proverb: Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.

William A. Ward: Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Horace: Quotes on Overcoming Adversity
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

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