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Adversity

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Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]

Bible

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

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

Horace

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

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

Russell, Rosalind

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.

Virgil

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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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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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One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Robert, Cavett

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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.

Chambers, Oswald

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Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Hale, Edward Everett

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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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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Shain, Merle

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

Ford, Elias A.

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Wells, H.G.

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Benson, Taylor

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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

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

Seligman, Martin E. P.

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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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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Buckham, James

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Propertius, Sextus

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Landers, Ann

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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

France, Anatole

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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.