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- Anonymous
Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
- Washington Irving (1783-1859) American Writer
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
- Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in 1918
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
- Rose Terry Cooke
We've all got to go to school, I expect, and we don't all get the same lesson to learn, but the one we do get is our'n, 'taint nobody else's, and if it's real hard, why, it shows the teacher thinks we're capable.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
- Chinese proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) British Playwright and Novelist
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
- William Mather Lewis
The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
- Aristotle
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
- Sigmund Freud
One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
- Elisabeth Guizot
The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls
which it does not deprive of all virtue.
- Mallett
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
- Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886-1967) American Advertising Executive
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) British-American Writer
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
...we could never learn to be brave and patient , if there were only joy in the world.
- Charles H. Spurgeon
A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing -- the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.
- From
Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.
- Henry B. Wilson
He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.
- Charlotte Bronte
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.
- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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