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Life Quotes... Adversity
“It is not always by plugging away at a
difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by
working on the one next to it. Some
things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an
angle.”
André Gide
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be
so pleasant; if we had not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity
would not be so welcome.”
Anna Bradstreet
“Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes
them.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a
pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.”
Charles Dickens
“The greater the difficulty, the greater the
glory.”
Cicero
“Trouble is a part of your life, and if you
don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to
love you enough.”
Dinah Shore
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents
which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”
Horace
“Adversity has the same effect on a man that
severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting
weight.”
Josh Billings
“Each handicap is like a hurdle in a
steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart
over, the horse will go along, too.”
Lawrence Bixby
“Watch a man in times of ... adversity to
discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are
drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.”
Lucretius
“A woman is like a teabag; you never know how
strong she is until she gets in hot water.”
Nancy Reagan
“I don't say 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, Jr.
“Adversity is the state in which a man most
easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from
admirers then.”
Samuel Johnson
“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity
destroys our appreciation of the right.”
Seneca the Younger
“Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it
kick you harder than you bargained for.”
Stanislaus
“The great pleasure in life is doing what
people say you cannot do.”
Walter Bagehot
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the
strength of it.”
Woodrow Wilson
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