"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records."

Ward, William A. on adversity
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"As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it."

Horace on adversity
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

Hemingway, Ernest 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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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it."

Hazlitt, William on adversity
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"Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul."

Ford, Elias A. on adversity
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"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter."

Fielding, Henry 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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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."

Collier, Robert 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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