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Adversity

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

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Best Quotes about Adversity

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shain, Merle

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

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

Weltman, Phil

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder

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

Neal, John

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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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 proof of gold is fire...

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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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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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

Proverb, Italian

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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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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Collins, Kitty O'neill

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Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

Ward, William A.

22.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kennedy, Rose F.

29.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

30.

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

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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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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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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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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Billings, Josh

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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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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

Walton, Sam

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Landers, Ann

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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says,chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

Chambers, Oswald

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Swahili Warrior Song

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Roethke, Theodore

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Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Proverb, Maori

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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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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop