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| Nearly all men can stand ADVERSITY, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| The reward of suffering is experience. | Aeschylus | BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist |
| Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. | Aesop | 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist |
| One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome ADVERSITY. | Albert Schweitzer | 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher |
| Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture. | Anandabai Joshee | 1865-1887, Indian Physician |
| Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. | Anatole France | 1844-1924, French Writer |
| Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. | Ann Landers | 1918-, American Advice Columnist |
| 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 | 1612-1672, British Puritan Poet |
| You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. | Apollo 13 Movie | |
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| Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in ADVERSITY. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. | Arnold Bennet | |
| Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. | Arnold H. Glasgow | |
| There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| Every silver lining has a cloud. | Avon | |
| You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging ADVERSITY. | Barbara De Angelis | American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author |
| He knows not his own strength that hath not met ADVERSITY | Ben Jonson | 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet |
| There is no education like ADVERSITY. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| The proof of gold is fire... | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
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| If I travelled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end. | Bert Whitney | |
| They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| In the ADVERSITY of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us. | Brigham Young | 1801-1877, American Mormon Leader |
| I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. | Bryan Adams | 1959-, Canadian-born American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. | Carl Jung | 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist |
| Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. | Carl Zwanzig | |
| Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. | Charles 'Tremendous' Jones | American Motivational Speaker, Author |
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| Constant success shows us but one side of the world; ADVERSITY brings out the reverse of the picture. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by ADVERSITY. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. | Charles M. Schwab | 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman |
| Be more prompt to go to a friend in ADVERSITY than in prosperity. | Chilo | 560 BC, Greek Sage |
| A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while ADVERSITY is often as the rain of spring. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. | Danny Devito | 1944-, American Actor, Comedian |
| Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as ADVERSITY; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. | David Hare | 1947-, British Playwright, Director |
| Trouble shared is trouble halved. | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1893-1957, British Author |
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| They sicken at the calm that know the storm. | Dorothy Parker | 1893-1967, American Humorous Writer |
| The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. | Doug Horton | |
| Gray skies are just clouds passing over. | Duke Ellington | American jazz musician |
| In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. | Dustin Hoffman | 1937-, American Actor |
| Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it. | Earl Warren | 1891-1974, American Politician, Judge |
| Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
| Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. | Edward Everett Hale | 1822-1909, American Unitarian Clergyman, Writer |
| Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. | Edward Everett Hale | 1822-1909, American Unitarian Clergyman, Writer |
| A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe. | Edward Noyes Westcott | 1847-1898, American Author |
| Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. | Edwin Hubbel Chapin | 1814-1880, American Author, Clergyman |
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