“If you are ever in real trouble, don’t panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it, and there must be humor in it somewhere.” -Louise Fitzhugh (Louise Perkins Fitzhugh (1928 - 1974))
“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 (pseudonym of Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885 - 1962))
“Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.” -Katharine Hepburn (Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907 - 2003))
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“Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the Sun.” -Ruth Westheimer (born 1928)
“Some falls are means the happier to arise.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Cymbeline, King of Britain” (1609), Act IV, scene 2, line 2822; words of character Caius Lucius, general of the Roman forces
“Life is tough, but I’m tougher.” -Author Unknown
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“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” -Frank Leahy (1908 - 1973): as quoted in the “Daily Mail” (4 May 1954) newspaper of Charleston, West Virginia
“Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.” -Katherine Paterson (born 1932): “The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks” (1 January 1990)
“Determination, patience, and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation.” -Author Unknown
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“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): ‘Sir Walter Scott,’ published in the “London and Westminster Review” (12 November 1838)
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” [translation to English]
“Confragosa in fastigium dignitatis via est.” [original Latin]
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)): “Epistles,” letter to Lucilius
“I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.” -Gillian Anderson (Gillian Leigh Anderson (born 1968))
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“The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
“The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.” -Henry S. Haskins (Henry Stanley Haskins (1875 - 1957)): as quoted in Albert Jay Nock, editor: “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940), book originally published anonymously, page 92
“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” -Author Unknown
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“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” -C. H. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)): “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon” (1889), ‘Proverbs,’ page 89
“Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.” -Marvin J. Ashton (Marvin Jeremy Ashton (1915 - 1994)): as quoted in “Ensign” (November 1984), page 22
“If things go wrong, don’t go with them.” -Roger Babson (Roger Ward Babson (1875 - 1967))
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“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles. But most of them never happened.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): as attributed in “Reader’s Digest” (April 1934) and in Alex Ayres, editor: “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain” (1987)
“People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.” -William Faulkner (William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner (1897 - 1962))
“No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.” -Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945)
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“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them.” -Clare Boothe Luce (1903 - 1987)
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.” -C. H. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892))
“Remember, if you ever get into a difficult situation, you can always count on your fingers and toes!” -Author Unknown
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“Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.” -John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can man be perfected without trials.” -Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” -Bernice Reagon (Bernice Johnson Reagon (born 1942))
“The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks.” -Author Unknown
“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 (pseudonym of Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885 - 1962))
“Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.” -Katharine Hepburn (Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907 - 2003))
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“Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the Sun.” -Ruth Westheimer (born 1928)
“Some falls are means the happier to arise.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Cymbeline, King of Britain” (1609), Act IV, scene 2, line 2822; words of character Caius Lucius, general of the Roman forces
“Life is tough, but I’m tougher.” -Author Unknown
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“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” -Frank Leahy (1908 - 1973): as quoted in the “Daily Mail” (4 May 1954) newspaper of Charleston, West Virginia
“Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.” -Katherine Paterson (born 1932): “The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks” (1 January 1990)
“Determination, patience, and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation.” -Author Unknown
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“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): ‘Sir Walter Scott,’ published in the “London and Westminster Review” (12 November 1838)
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” [translation to English]
“Confragosa in fastigium dignitatis via est.” [original Latin]
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65)): “Epistles,” letter to Lucilius
“I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.” -Gillian Anderson (Gillian Leigh Anderson (born 1968))
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“The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
“The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.” -Henry S. Haskins (Henry Stanley Haskins (1875 - 1957)): as quoted in Albert Jay Nock, editor: “Meditations in Wall Street” (1940), book originally published anonymously, page 92
“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” -Author Unknown
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“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” -C. H. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)): “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon” (1889), ‘Proverbs,’ page 89
“Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.” -Marvin J. Ashton (Marvin Jeremy Ashton (1915 - 1994)): as quoted in “Ensign” (November 1984), page 22
“If things go wrong, don’t go with them.” -Roger Babson (Roger Ward Babson (1875 - 1967))
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“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles. But most of them never happened.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): as attributed in “Reader’s Digest” (April 1934) and in Alex Ayres, editor: “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain” (1987)
“People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.” -William Faulkner (William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner (1897 - 1962))
“No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.” -Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945)
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“There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them.” -Clare Boothe Luce (1903 - 1987)
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.” -C. H. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892))
“Remember, if you ever get into a difficult situation, you can always count on your fingers and toes!” -Author Unknown
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“Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.” -John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can man be perfected without trials.” -Confucius (a fifteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit scholars’ rendering of the Chinese name K’ung Fu-tzu or K’ung Ch’iu into Classical Latin (English: Master K’ung) (about 551 B.C.E. - about 479 B.C.E.))
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” -Bernice Reagon (Bernice Johnson Reagon (born 1942))
“The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks.” -Author Unknown
When your life is difficult, just remember this furry fellow, who lives in a garbage can. Of course, your expectations in life may be a little different than his . . .
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The Test of a Man
There’s little satisfaction to be
gained from doing things
That hold no difficulties: it’s the tough
old task that brings
Keen sense of worth and power to the
man who wins the fight;
His failures test his courage and his
problems prove his might:
Until a man has conquered loss and
overcome defeat,
He can not fully understand just why
success is sweet.
I’m thankful for my disappointments,
for the battles lost,
And for mistakes that seemed to charge
an overwhelming cost:
I’m thankful for the days of doubt
when it was hard to see
That all things work together for the
good that is to be;
I’m glad for all that Life has brought,
because today I know
That men must brave adversities if
they would greater grow.
By O. Lawrence Hawthorne (Orin Lawrence Hawthorne (1890 - 1956))
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There’s little satisfaction to be
gained from doing things
That hold no difficulties: it’s the tough
old task that brings
Keen sense of worth and power to the
man who wins the fight;
His failures test his courage and his
problems prove his might:
Until a man has conquered loss and
overcome defeat,
He can not fully understand just why
success is sweet.
I’m thankful for my disappointments,
for the battles lost,
And for mistakes that seemed to charge
an overwhelming cost:
I’m thankful for the days of doubt
when it was hard to see
That all things work together for the
good that is to be;
I’m glad for all that Life has brought,
because today I know
That men must brave adversities if
they would greater grow.
By O. Lawrence Hawthorne (Orin Lawrence Hawthorne (1890 - 1956))
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“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” -Lou Holtz (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))
“Every adversity can make you bitter or better.” -Mary Kay Mueller (born 1953)
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“While troubles will come, they are always temporary - nothing lasts forever. Thus, there is the famous legend that King Solomon, the wisest man of all times, had a ring inscribed with the words, ‘This too shall pass.’” -Aryeh Kaplan (Aryeh Moshe Eliyahu Kaplan (1934 - 1983))
“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 24, verse 16
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” -B. C. Forbes (Robert Charles ‘Bertie’ Forbes (1880 - 1954)): as quoted in “Forbes” (1958)
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“I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.” -Will Rogers (William Penn Adair ‘Will’ Rogers (1879 - 1935))
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940))
“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” -Author Unknown
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“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” -William E. Channing (William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)): “Self-Culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838” (1839), page 42
“Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” -Author Unknown
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“People don’t ever seem to realize that doing what’s right’s no guarantee against misfortune.” -William McFee (1881 - 1966)
“There is no education like adversity.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
“I have never known anyone to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.” -Lou Holtz (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))
“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.” -James Buckham (1858 - 1908): as quoted in Mary Allette Ayer, editor: “Keep up Your Courage: Key-Notes to Success” (1908)
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“Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.” -Arnold Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1991))
“Every adversity can make you bitter or better.” -Mary Kay Mueller (born 1953)
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“While troubles will come, they are always temporary - nothing lasts forever. Thus, there is the famous legend that King Solomon, the wisest man of all times, had a ring inscribed with the words, ‘This too shall pass.’” -Aryeh Kaplan (Aryeh Moshe Eliyahu Kaplan (1934 - 1983))
“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 24, verse 16
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” -B. C. Forbes (Robert Charles ‘Bertie’ Forbes (1880 - 1954)): as quoted in “Forbes” (1958)
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“I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.” -Will Rogers (William Penn Adair ‘Will’ Rogers (1879 - 1935))
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940))
“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.” -Author Unknown
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“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” -William E. Channing (William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)): “Self-Culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838” (1839), page 42
“Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” -Author Unknown
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“People don’t ever seem to realize that doing what’s right’s no guarantee against misfortune.” -William McFee (1881 - 1966)
“There is no education like adversity.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
“I have never known anyone to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.” -Lou Holtz (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))
“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.” -James Buckham (1858 - 1908): as quoted in Mary Allette Ayer, editor: “Keep up Your Courage: Key-Notes to Success” (1908)
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“Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.” -Arnold Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1991))
“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” -Peter Marshall (1902 - 1949)
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“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.” -Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Satires” (about 35 B.C.E. and 30 B.C.E.)
“The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it, more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction.” -Richard Chenevix Trench (known simply as Richard Trench until 1873 (1807 - 1886)): “An Essay Upon National Character” (1832), book I, part II, chapter III
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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 (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” -Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - 1673))
“What on Earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way?” -H. G. Wells (Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946))
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“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774): “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
“He that falls to-day, may be up again to-morrow.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 2097
“Life begins to become truly livable once we have learned how to get back up after we stumble and fall. The mastery of that knowledge may come about only following many falls but it finally comes to us and softens the pain and humiliation on each occasion that we stumble after that, and so we are able to face life with some courage because of what we have learned after falling. Everything eventually becomes easier with time and experience.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.” -Frank Harris (born James Thomas Harris (1855 - 1931)): “Oscar Wilde” (1916), chapter 6, page 59
“If there is no struggle there is no progress.” -Frederick Douglass (pseudonym of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (1817 - 1895)): personal letter (30 March 1849) to Gerrit Smith
“The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that precedes the victory.” -Karen Bliss Livingston (born 1963)
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“The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments, we fall and get crushed.” -Clarence Day (1874 - 1935)
“I admire people who choose to shine even after all the storms they’ve been through.” -Author Unknown
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born 1947)) at http://www.schwarzenegger.com/
“Life has its peaks and its valleys.” -Author Unknown
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“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment longer, never give up then - for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe (Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)): “Old Town Folks” (1869), chapter 39: ‘Last Days in Cloudland’
“Never let life’s hardships disturb you . . . no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.” -Nichiren Daishonen (1222 - 1282)
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“Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.” -Solon (about 630 B.C.E. - about 560 B.C.E.)
“Defeat is nothing but the first step to something better.” -Author Unknown
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“Fight the good fight with all thy might.” -John S. B. Monsell (John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811 - 1875)): “Fight the Good Fight” (1863) hymn
“The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
“However hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better.” -Benjamin E. Mays (Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894 - 1984)): as quoted in Dorothy Winbush Riley: “My Soul Looks Back, ’Less I Forget” (1995)
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“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.” -J. C. Penney (James Cash ‘J. C.’ Penney, Junior (1875 - 1971))
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” -Walter Elliott
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“The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.” -William J. H. Boetcker (William John Henry Boetcker (1873 - 1962))
“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.” -Robert Leighton (1611 - 1684)
“One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.” -George H. Allen (George Herbert Allen, Senior (1918 - 1990))
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“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy.” -Felicia Hemans
“Those who turn back know only the ordeal, but those who persevere remember the adventure.” -Milo Arnold
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“With every victory over adversity, you grow in wisdom, stature, and experience. You become a better, bigger person each time you meet a problem.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.” -Richard G. Scott
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“Endure, and preserve yourself for better things.” [translation to English]
“Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.” [original Latin]
-Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.)) : “Aeneid” (29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), Book I, line 207 (translated by John Dryden)
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” -Dolly Parton (Dolly Rebecca Parton (born 1946)): as quoted in Bob Phillips: “Phillips’ Book of Great Thoughts” (1993), page 264
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“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.” -Quintus Horatius Flaccus (also known simply as Horace (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Satires” (about 35 B.C.E. and 30 B.C.E.)
“The mind which does not wholly sink under misfortune rises above it, more lofty than before, and is strengthened by affliction.” -Richard Chenevix Trench (known simply as Richard Trench until 1873 (1807 - 1886)): “An Essay Upon National Character” (1832), book I, part II, chapter III
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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 (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” -Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - 1673))
“What on Earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way?” -H. G. Wells (Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946))
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“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774): “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
“He that falls to-day, may be up again to-morrow.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 2097
“Life begins to become truly livable once we have learned how to get back up after we stumble and fall. The mastery of that knowledge may come about only following many falls but it finally comes to us and softens the pain and humiliation on each occasion that we stumble after that, and so we are able to face life with some courage because of what we have learned after falling. Everything eventually becomes easier with time and experience.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.” -Frank Harris (born James Thomas Harris (1855 - 1931)): “Oscar Wilde” (1916), chapter 6, page 59
“If there is no struggle there is no progress.” -Frederick Douglass (pseudonym of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey (1817 - 1895)): personal letter (30 March 1849) to Gerrit Smith
“The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that precedes the victory.” -Karen Bliss Livingston (born 1963)
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“The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments, we fall and get crushed.” -Clarence Day (1874 - 1935)
“I admire people who choose to shine even after all the storms they’ve been through.” -Author Unknown
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born 1947)) at http://www.schwarzenegger.com/
“Life has its peaks and its valleys.” -Author Unknown
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“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment longer, never give up then - for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe (Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)): “Old Town Folks” (1869), chapter 39: ‘Last Days in Cloudland’
“Never let life’s hardships disturb you . . . no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.” -Nichiren Daishonen (1222 - 1282)
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“Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))
“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.” -Solon (about 630 B.C.E. - about 560 B.C.E.)
“Defeat is nothing but the first step to something better.” -Author Unknown
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“Fight the good fight with all thy might.” -John S. B. Monsell (John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811 - 1875)): “Fight the Good Fight” (1863) hymn
“The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
“However hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better.” -Benjamin E. Mays (Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894 - 1984)): as quoted in Dorothy Winbush Riley: “My Soul Looks Back, ’Less I Forget” (1995)
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“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.” -J. C. Penney (James Cash ‘J. C.’ Penney, Junior (1875 - 1971))
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” -Walter Elliott
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“The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.” -William J. H. Boetcker (William John Henry Boetcker (1873 - 1962))
“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.” -Robert Leighton (1611 - 1684)
“One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.” -George H. Allen (George Herbert Allen, Senior (1918 - 1990))
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“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy.” -Felicia Hemans
“Those who turn back know only the ordeal, but those who persevere remember the adventure.” -Milo Arnold
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“With every victory over adversity, you grow in wisdom, stature, and experience. You become a better, bigger person each time you meet a problem.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.” -Richard G. Scott
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“Endure, and preserve yourself for better things.” [translation to English]
“Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.” [original Latin]
-Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.)) : “Aeneid” (29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), Book I, line 207 (translated by John Dryden)
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” -Dolly Parton (Dolly Rebecca Parton (born 1946)): as quoted in Bob Phillips: “Phillips’ Book of Great Thoughts” (1993), page 264
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