Adversity

(67 votes)   Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger
1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State

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(67 votes)   Every burden is a blessing.

Robert H. Schuller
1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader

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(67 votes)   It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Greek Saying

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(67 votes)   The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Seneca

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(67 votes)   There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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(67 votes)   We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, Why did this happen to me? unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.

Unknown

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(67 votes)   When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(66 votes)   Adversity is your greatest professor

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(66 votes)   As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Orson Scott Card

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(66 votes)   Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

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(66 votes)   With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Pliny the Elder

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(65 votes)   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

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(65 votes)   God gave burdens, also shoulders.

Yiddish proverb

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(65 votes)   He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity

Ben Jonson
1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet

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(65 votes)   I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Janet Jackson
1966-, American Musician, Actress

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