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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
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
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Adversity can crush our spirit -
or strengthen it - it is our choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
Be open to the goodness of life -
even in the midst of apparent adversity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The experience of democracy is like
the experience of life itself -
always changing, infinite in its variety,
sometimes turbulent
and all the more valuable
for having been tested by adversity.
- Jimmy Carter
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- Jonas Salk
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years
to have breakfast together,
but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
- Winston Churchill
Essentially all suffering is the result of...
1. Comparing what we have (or don't have) today
... with what we had yesterday.
2. Comparing what we fear we might have (or not have) tomorrow)
... with what we have today.
3. Comparing what we have (or don't have) with what others have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
That person did the very best they could,
given the knowledge, emotions, and prior experience
they had to draw upon at the time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ever had a bad hair day -
a day when everything seemed to be going wrong?
Perhaps today is a day to soothe your ruffled feathers,
take a deep breath, and reaffirm that
the weight of the world is really not on your shoulders,
unless you choose to assume that burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
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