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Adversity
is the trial of principle.
Without it people
hardly know
whether they are honest or not.
Henry Fielding
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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 show us the value of a job.
Victor Hugo
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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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People of character
find a special attractiveness in
difficulty,
since it is only by coming to grips with
difficulty
that they can realize their potentialities.
Charles
DeGaulle
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must
not be defeated. In fact,
it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can
know who you
are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of
it.
Maya Angelou |
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We
could never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were
only joy in the world.
Helen Keller |
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Sweet are the uses
of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venemous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt in public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
I would not change it.
attributed to
William Shakespeare
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Only
in winter can you tell which trees are truly green.
Only when the winds of adversity blow can
you tell
whether an individual or a country has
steadfastness.
John
F. Kennedy
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Kites
rise highest against the wind--
not with it.
Winston Churchill |
Adversity causes some people to break;
others to break records.
William A. Ward |
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Sometimes
great difficulties are permitted only in order to
strengthen the character.
Robert Benson |
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The
keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole creator
of all our adversities.
Sophocles |
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Prosperity
is no just scale; adversity is
the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch |
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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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They have seen but half the universe who
never
have been shown
the house of pain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Misfortune
is the test of a person's merit.
Seneca
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A high
heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them,
since
in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind
and in
fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
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Adversity is like the period of the
rain. . . cold, comfortless,
unfriendly
to people and to animals; yet from that season
have their birth the flower,
the fruit, the date,
the rose and the pomegranate.
Walter Scott |
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People's best
successes come
after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The happy
and efficient people in this world are those who accept
trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to
capitalize on
it when it comes along. The hiding places of people
are discovered by affliction.
James Alexander |
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Adversities
do not make a person either weak or strong,
but they reveal what we are.
Faith Forsyte |
The
ultimate measure of a person is not where he or she
stands in
moments of comfort and convenience, but where
he or she stands
at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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 |
For every dark experience, something good comes of it.
Sickness is an invitation for a course correction to improve the quality
of your life. Painful relationships move you to honor yourself and claim
better. Losing a job can motivate you to create a more meaningful,
passion-filled career. Overbearing monarchs incite downtrodden
people to establish democracies.
Alan Cohen
The Tao Made Easy
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Before
you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and
delays
quite impossible to foresee are ahead. . . .
You can only see one thing
clearly and that is your goal.
Form a mental vision of that
and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris |
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Defeat is a school in which Truth always grows
strong.
Henry Ward Beecher |
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Those
who can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Yiddish proverb |
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Positive
thinking is not the destination; it is the journey.
An optimistic person
will be constantly challenged--by external circumstances
as well as
inner fears and doubts.
Always remember that these tests are like
a ladder you must climb.
As you move past each rung, your optimism
strengthens and your confidence begins to flex newly found
muscle
that you might never have developed otherwise.
Montague
Ewards |
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If
we had no 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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Most
very successful people can remember that their success was
discovered and built out of adversity of some kind.
It's not the
problems that beset us--problems are surprisingly pretty
much
the same for millions of others--it's how we react to
problems
that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity
but our future success--and, perhaps, much of our health.
Earl
Nightingale |
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I am
an old man and have known
a great many
troubles,
but most
of them have never happened.
Mark
Twain |
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We
become wiser in adversity; prosperity destroys
our appreciation of the right.
Seneca |
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The art of living lies less in eliminating
troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard Baruch |
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The
only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly,
slowly,
with humility and faith. Then its very ways of misery
will divide and
become to us a wall, on the right side and the left, until the
gulf
narrows before our eyes, and we land on the opposite shore.
Dinah M. Craik |
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Our
lives are full of separations that shake us up, force us
to
attend
to our emotional selves and to learn new ways
of being in
the world. Although many of our losses are
painful, they encourage our
gains. The lesson life is trying
to teach us is that, regardless of
the challenges
and
changes in the physical world, we will abide in peace by
aligning
ourselves with our inner changelessness.
The
power of God in us
is more than equal to any moment—
no matter what it brings.
We live
in a loving, supportive
universe that is always
saying yes to us.
Susan
L. Taylor |
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