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Adversity

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

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Best Quotes about Adversity

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Russell, Rosalind

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Collier, Robert

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Devito, Danny

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Mandino, Og

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Scott, Sir Walter

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

James, William

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Frank, Anne

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Ford, Henry

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Richter, Jean Paul

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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

Kempis, Thomas

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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Pike, Albert

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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Saying, Greek

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Lawrence, Thomas E.

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If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.

Sheehan, George

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Fielding, Henry

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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Horace

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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.

Talmud, The

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

Smiles, Samuel

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Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Mandino, Og

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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Horton, Doug

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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Kerr, Jean

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Weltman, Phil

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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Rogers, James

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As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

Horace

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A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace

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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Holtz, Lou

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I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Adams, Bryan

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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Kempis, Thomas

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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches

Weil, Simone

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.