Inspirational Quotes About Courage, Fortitude and Overcoming Adversity

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"What though the field be lost?

All is not lost; the inconquerable will,...

And courage never to submit or yield;

And what else not to be overcome?"

From "Paradise Lost" by John Milton


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"Sweet are the uses of adversity,

Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

From "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare


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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;

and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."

Francis Bacon


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"...the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction..."

Isaiah, Chapter XXX, Verse 20


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"Difficulties are things that show what men are."

From "Discourses" by Epictetus

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"Everything has two handles---one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot."

From "Enchiridion" by Epictetus

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