Adversity

(278 votes)   If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

Cavett Robert

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(267 votes)   In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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(247 votes)   It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Heartland Advisor

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(244 votes)   Every silver lining has a cloud.

Avon

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

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(237 votes)   Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(236 votes)   If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't 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

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(217 votes)   Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

African proverb

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(216 votes)   Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.

William A. Ward
1921-,

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(212 votes)   No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Victor Hugo

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(206 votes)   When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosalind Russell

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(196 votes)   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

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(192 votes)   For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

Jean Paul Richter

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(189 votes)   Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(189 votes)   The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

Doug Horton

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