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Thursday, 24 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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Browse Quotations about Adversity

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
A man is a god in ruins.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
A stumble may prevent a fall.
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Any port in a storm.
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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]
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
Every burden is a blessing.
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.