Adversity

(189 votes)   We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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(186 votes)   God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey

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(176 votes)   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.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(166 votes)   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.

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

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(164 votes)   Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Oliver Goldsmith

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(162 votes)   The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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

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(155 votes)   The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus
BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist

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(152 votes)   When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Mary Kay Ash
American Businesswoman, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

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(151 votes)   I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Dr. Seuss

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(151 votes)   We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Seneca

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(140 votes)   Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige
1906?-1982, American Baseball Player

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(133 votes)   It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.

Unknown

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(133 votes)   Stumbling is not falling.

Portuguese Proverbs
Sayings of Portuguese Origin

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(132 votes)   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

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(130 votes)   If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.

John A. Simone, Sr.

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