"There are no gains without pains."

Franklin, Benjamin on pain
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"Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again."

Harte, Bret on pain
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"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset."

Jefferson, Thomas on pain
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"Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain."

Johnson, Samuel on pain
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Jung, Carl on pain
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"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits -- which was exactly where they were supposed to be."

Marcinko, Richard on pain
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"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."

Gallagher, Robert C. on adversity
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"I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments."

Frank, Anne on adversity
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"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."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on adversity
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

Ford, Henry on adversity
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"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

Epictetus on adversity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."

Ellington, Duke on adversity
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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

Gesser on adversity
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"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."

Hale, Edward Everett on adversity
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity"

Jonson, Ben on adversity
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on adversity
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"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."

Johnson, Samuel on adversity
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"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."

Johnson on adversity
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

James, William on adversity
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"There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him."

Howe, Edgar Watson on adversity
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"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

Horton, Doug on adversity
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"As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it."

Horace on adversity
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"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."

Dune, Frank Herbert on adversity
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