Best Quotes About Adversity (Top 100)
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Maya Angelou
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I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.
Tupac Shakur
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends
John Churton Collins
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
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Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.
Napoleon Hill
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The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
Confucius
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we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how
Tupac Shakur
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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus
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We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
Robertson Davies
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron
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To live is to war with trolls.
Henrik Ibsen
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It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.
Jimmy Buffett
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Simone Weil
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We only think when we are confronted with problems.
John Dewey
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert Camus
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou Holtz
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It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.
M. Scott Peck
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Hope will never be silent.
Harvey Milk
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
Erma Bombeck
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar Wilde
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In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca
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When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott
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It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates
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A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
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Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Be a pro. ⢠Act like a champion. ⢠Respond to adversity; don't react. ⢠Be on time. Being late means either it's not important to you or you can't be relied upon. ⢠Execute. Do what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it. Not almost. All the way. Not most of the time. All of the time. ⢠Take ownership. Whatever it takes. No excuses, no explanations.
Tony Dungy
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
Jack Benny
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
George Bernard Shaw
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Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen
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If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard
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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
James Brown
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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Golda Meir
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We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
Frank A. Clark
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If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
Lucy Larcom
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
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You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
Joan Baez
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Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
Fannie Flagg
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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Anita Roddick
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I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Helen Keller
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott
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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Theodore Roethke
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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.
Pliny the Elder
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
Anne Bradstreet
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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren
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In the day of prosperity, we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only One.
Horatius Bonar
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Adversity tests the sincerity of friends
Aesop
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There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''
Richard DeVos
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Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Billie Holiday
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Those things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
Abigail Adams
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If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Margot Asquith
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Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
Bernie Siegel
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
Lucretius
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X
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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden
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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.
George MacDonald
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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
Reggie Jackson
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
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I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.
John Calipari
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
Bernie Siegel
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Alexander Hamilton
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There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Lou Reed
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
Even More Adversity Quotes
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
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There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
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Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.
Roman Polanski
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The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
Patti Smith
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
Damon Runyon
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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.
Robert Collier
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney
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By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
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There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith
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Problems are the price you pay for progress.
Branch Rickey
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Horace
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I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.
James Beard
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Samuel Smiles
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Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
Ben Jonson
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
Victor Hugo
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war
Seneca
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
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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.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
John Ray
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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
Pliny the Elder
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
David Hare
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
Gail Sheehy
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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Edwin Markham
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You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.
Ralph Nader
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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.
Josh Billings
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates
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I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett
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I feel it's okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don't stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.
Robin Roberts
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We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Lucy Larcom
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[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.
Jacqueline Cochran
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
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The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
Horace Greeley
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver Goldsmith
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In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
Boethius
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
Dorothy Dix
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Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Ellis Peters
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Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
Lou Holtz
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
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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.
Anatole France
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Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
Epictetus
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
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Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Merle Shain
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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Edith Sitwell
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A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English Proverb
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon
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Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore
Jonathan Swift
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
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Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris
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All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare Pavese
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
Henry Fielding
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
Ruth Gordon
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
King Solomon
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
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Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.
Arthur Bryant
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When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
Hugh Prather
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I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
Margaret Anderson
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Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Corita Kent
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The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks
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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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
Christy Mathewson
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
Horace
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They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Pietro Aretino
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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
Beah Richards
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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.
Eden Phillpotts
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True knowledge comes only through suffering.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh
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An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
Ignazio Silone
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right
Seneca
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When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.
Frank Leahy
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The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg
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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Walt Schmidt
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard
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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard
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A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.
Nancy Reagan
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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Washington Irving
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can
stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Francis Bacon, Sr
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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.
Cicely Tyson
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
Dorothy Parker
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis Presley
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
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To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.
Benjamin Franklin
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Remorse begets reform.
William Cowper
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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.
Don Sutton
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
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They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog—keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe.
Edward Noyes Westcott
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At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
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The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epicurus
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving
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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Ovid
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G K Chesterton
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Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
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What does not kill you makes you stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
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I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges — battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.
Billy Graham
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It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
Jessica Mitford
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
Saadi
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Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Epictetus
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost
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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill
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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon, Sr
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon, Sr
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
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Necessity is often the spur to genius.
Honore de Balzac
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Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Kathryn Hulme
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Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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What we want is never simple.
Linda Pastan
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Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace
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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
Horace
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Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great
Rose F. Kennedy
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In adversity remember to keep an even mind
Horace
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Zig Ziglar
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Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
Baltasar Gracian