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Adversity

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Best Quotes about Adversity

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

Macdonald, George

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Casey, M Kathleen

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.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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

Sheehan, George

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Movie, Apollo 13

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Gesser

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Proverb, Maori

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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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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Allenbaugh, Eric

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Havner, Vance

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca

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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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

Virgil

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Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

Westcott, Edward Noyes

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I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jackson, Janet

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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

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We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

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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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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Horace

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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

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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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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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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

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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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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Augustine, St.

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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Ransom, Ralph

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Dune, Frank Herbert

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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Neal, John

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They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]

Bible

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