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Adversity

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Benson, Taylor

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

Hazlitt, William

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.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Byron, Lord

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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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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

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Every burden is a blessing.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca

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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.

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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Brown, Les

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Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Zwanzig, Carl

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Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Brown, Les

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Jung, Carl

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Things were bad but now they are OK.

Seymour, Harold J.

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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

Sting

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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Cocteau, Jean

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Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Warren, Earl

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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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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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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Barclay, H.K.

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Homer

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Post, Laurens Van du

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

Seneca