ADVERSITY

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(1408 votes)  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.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(914 votes)  We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

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(858 votes)  If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

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(848 votes)  Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop
620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

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(848 votes)  I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

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(721 votes)  I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Anne Frank
1929-1945, German Jewish Refugee, Diarist

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(717 votes)  Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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(712 votes)  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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(706 votes)  If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin proverb

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(700 votes)  Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(689 votes)  God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

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(672 votes)  Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Seneca

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(669 votes)  Bad is never good until worse happens.

Danish proverb

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(664 votes)  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.

Bryan Adams
1959-, Canadian-born American Musician, Singer, Songwriter

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(664 votes)  Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Eric Allenbaugh
American Author of ''Wake-Up Calls''

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(659 votes)  Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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(645 votes)  Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(638 votes)  Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Jean Anouilh

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(634 votes)  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
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(634 votes)  Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(630 votes)  I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author

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(622 votes)  God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey

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

Heartland Advisor

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(620 votes)  The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Doug Horton

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(618 votes)  Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(618 votes)  No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(616 votes)  One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

Sophocles

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(612 votes)  You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Barbara De Angelis
American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

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(610 votes)  A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

English Proverb
Sayings of British Origin

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

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(602 votes)  It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Sophocles

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(600 votes)  Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(598 votes)  If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.

Russian proverb

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(597 votes)  The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles

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(593 votes)  Every path has its puddle.

English proverb

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(589 votes)  If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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(586 votes)  The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus
BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist

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(586 votes)  The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(584 votes)  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.

Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige
1906?-1982, American Baseball Player

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(572 votes)  One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(572 votes)  Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

André Gide

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(570 votes)  Every rose has its thorn.

Unknown

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(563 votes)  Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

James Rogers

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(563 votes)  Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

African proverb

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(562 votes)  When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosalind Russell

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(553 votes)  A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet

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(549 votes)  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.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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

Arnold Bennet

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(537 votes)  Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

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(525 votes)  If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.

Unknown

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