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Adversity

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

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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

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Salk, Lee

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

Proverb, Chinese

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

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In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Leonard, George

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Coppola, Francis Ford

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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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Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

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

Shain, Merle

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

Horace

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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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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kempis, Thomas

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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Advisor, Heartland

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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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People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within

Ross, Elizabeth Kubler

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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

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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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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Nixon, Richard M.

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.

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

Russell, Rosalind

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

Seneca

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Burata, Mario

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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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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Heraclitus

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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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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

Byron, Lord

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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The proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Rogers, Will

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Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Bible

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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Bennet, Arnold

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Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Johnson, Samuel

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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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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.