"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

Kerr, Jean on adversity
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"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

Rose Kennedy on adversity
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"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

Bacon, Francis on adversity   

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Angelis, Barbara De on adversity
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"Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning."

Allenbaugh, Eric on adversity
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"No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these."

Virgil on adversity
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"I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time."

Walton, Sam on adversity
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"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it."

Warren, Earl on adversity   

"Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches"

Weil, Simone on adversity   

"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."

Weltman, Phil on adversity   

"The reward of suffering is experience."

Aeschylus on adversity
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"It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls."

Advisor, Heartland on adversity   

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."

Ziglar, Zig on adversity
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"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."

Winfrey, Oprah on adversity
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"It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on adversity
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"Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is."

Kempis, Thomas on adversity
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"If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

Kerr, Jean on adversity
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"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

Kennedy, Rose F. on adversity
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"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."

Kierkegaard, Søren on adversity
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."

Kissinger, Henry on adversity   

"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."

Lawrence, Thomas E. on adversity
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"In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way."

Leonard, George on adversity
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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."

Lowell, James Russell on adversity
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"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on adversity   

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Malcolm X on adversity
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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

Keats, John on adversity
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"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on adversity
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"As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it."

Horace on adversity
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"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

Horace on adversity
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"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune."

Horace on adversity   

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

Horace on adversity
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"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

Horton, Doug on adversity
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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Irving, Washington 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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"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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"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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"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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