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Adversity IV

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.
Colette
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man made perfect without trials.
Chinese proverb
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Adversity is necessary to the development of man's virtue.
Wisdom of the Chinese
Alas, how scant the sheaves for all the trouble, the toil, the pain and the resolve sublime a few full ears; the rest but weeds and stubble, and withered wild flowers plucked before their time.
A.B. Bragdon
Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!
Peter de Jager
A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
B.C. Forbes
At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.
Hudson Newsletter
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Author Unknown
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Author Unknown
The greatest battles of your life are fought within the private chambers of your own soul.
Author Unknown
Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes it's jewels with.
Leighton
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. Chesterton
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Ernest Hemmingway
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
John Neal
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
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert H. Schuller
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Lee Salk
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Karl von Knebel
Every oak tree started out as some nut who decided to stand their ground.
Unknown
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

8/6/08

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