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There
is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
In
prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know
our friends.
John Churton Collins
Nothing
is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become
the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum
It
has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish
when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov
Good
fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit
him to meet the contingencies of this life.
French Proverb
It
is interesting to notice how 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
The
man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his
first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius
All
misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
Fractures
well cured make us more strong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity
is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Horace
Misfortunes
often sharpen the genius.
Ovid
The
rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless
when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow
Success
in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities,
whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity
to discover them.
Horace
Look
not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to
meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly
heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A
gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small
man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Confucius
Little
minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great
minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Difficulties
strengthen the mind,
as well as labor does the body.
Seneca
Times
of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive
of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from
the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is
elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton
The
gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be
perfected without trials.
Danish Proverb
Obstacles
are great incentives.
Jules Michelet
In
the midst of winter, I found there was within me an
invincible summer.
Albert Careb
Problems
are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
Look
up and not down; look forward and not back; look out
and not in; and lend a hand.
E. E. Hale
What
is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first
steps to something better.
Proverb
Sweet
are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
It
is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Louis Kossuth
I
do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them
in as little compass as I can for myself, and never
let them annoy others.
Robert Southey
Wherever
we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape
within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller
They
merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than
those who temper themselves in contentment.
Pietro Aretino
Difficulties,
by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness,
as exercise assists digestion.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A
wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,
We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
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