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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON ADVERSITY 5
Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
Author Unknown
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Author Unknown
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Author Unknown
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Author Unknown
Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them.
Author Unknown
Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
Author Unknown
He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.
Author Unknown
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
Author Unknown
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Author Unknown
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
Author Unknown
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Author Unknown
If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems too heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.
Author Unknown
If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.
Author Unknown
If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Author Unknown
In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.
Author Unknown
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
Author Unknown
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Author Unknown
Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth
Author Unknown
Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.
Author Unknown
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Author Unknown
Some days the dragon wins.
Author Unknown
Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.
Author Unknown
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them
Author Unknown
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
Author Unknown
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren (1918-, American advice columnist, "Dear Abby")
The mark of a motivated man is his ability to distinguish a setback from a defeat.
Author Unknown
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.
Author Unknown
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
Author Unknown
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity...when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
Author Unknown
There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.
Author Unknown
Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
Author Unknown
Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.
Author Unknown
What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.
Author Unknown
When facing a difficult task, act as if you cannot fail.
Author Unknown
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
Author Unknown
When you have nothing left but God, then for the first time you become aware that God is enough.
Author Unknown
Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.
Author Unknown
Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.
Robert R. Updegraff
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)
My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera, and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.
King Vidor
When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show more promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer.
King Vidor
There can be no rainbow without a storm and a cloud.
F.H. Vincent
Too happy would you be, did ye but know your own advantages!
Virgil (c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman poet)
You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
Virgil (c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman poet)
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
Chuck Yeager
God will wait as long as it takes for us.
Roy W. Walters
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Sam Walton (1918-1992, American businessman, founder of Wal-mart)
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
William A. Ward
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.
William A. Ward
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for it.
Earl Warren (1891-1974, American politician, judge)
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.
George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
Pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
H.G. Wells (1866-1946, British-born American author)
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Phil Weltman (American business executive, William Morris Agency)
Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.
Jessamyn West (1903-1984, American author)
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)
If I traveled 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
Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919, American poet, journalist)
Whatever comes, this too shall pass away.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919, American poet, journalist)
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.
Oprah Winfrey (1954-, American TV personality, producer, actress, author)
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987, French novelist)
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Carl Zwanzig
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