Thomas Fuller
“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
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Author Unknown
"We have all these challenges disguised as problems."
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Morris Mandel
“The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.”
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Author Unknown
“Adversity accelerates direction.”
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Kahlil Gibran
“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”
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Becky Reeves
“This life is the test, not the reward.”
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William Hazlitt
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.”
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Author Unknown
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.”
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Hugh Miller
“Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.”
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Author Unknown
“It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.”
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Benjamin Disraeli
“There is no education like adversity.”
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Author Unknown
"How many trials are actually consequences?"
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Yiddish Proverb
“God gave burdens, also shoulders.”
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Truman Capote
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
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Latin Proverb
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
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M. Kathleen Casey
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
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Author Unknown
“You know you are on the right road if it is uphill."
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Winston Churchill
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
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Danish Proverb
“Bad is never good until worse happens.”
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African Proverb
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
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Mandie Ellingson
“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”
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Duke Ellington
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
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The Houghton Line
“If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.”
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Harry Golden
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
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Author Unkown
“When trouble comes some use their religion and some lose their religion.”
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Jewish Proverb
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”
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Sterling W. Sill
"Difficulty is one of the prices that we pay for our blessings."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
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Uncle Remus
“You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.”
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Confucius
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”
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Author Unknown
“When people have adversity in their life they usually get humbled or bitter.”
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Joseph Young
"The pathway through adversity is the safest way to heaven."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
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Kenji Miyazawa
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
"All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving."
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Michel de Montaigne
“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
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Joan Lunden
A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.
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James E. Faust
“Adversity is the refiner’s fire that bends iron but tempers steel.”
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William Shakespeare
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”
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O. Henry
“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
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Robert Brault
“When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.”
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Woody Hayes
“There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”
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Frank A. Clark
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”
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Romans 12:12
“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer…”
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Edwin Markham
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”
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James E. Faust
“Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.”
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Nicole Levi
“It doesn’t matter how many things you’re doing right; adversity will still come.”
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Leslie Grossman
“When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.”
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Chinese Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor the man perfected without trials.”
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Richard Eugene Burton
“As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.”
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Hebrews 5:8
“Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness."
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J. Andrew Helt
“When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.”
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Johann Paul Richter
“Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.”
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Author Unknown
“A smooth stone gets that way by rolling down the stream and the rough edges get knocked off.”
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Author Unknown
"In school we are taught lessons and given a test. In life we are given a test and taught lessons."
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William James
“Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
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James E. Faust
“I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.”
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Buddy Buie
“Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.”
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Psalm 107:6
“Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
"Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery."
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Robert Brault
“Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.”
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Helen Keller
“I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work, my God.”
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Author Unknown
“We must carry out and finish everything that we start. Every undone or unfinished task becomes an obstacle to our progress.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
"For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours."
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Author Unknown
“No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.”
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Mary Engelbreit
“If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”
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John A. Simone, Sr.
“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.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.”
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Francis Bacon
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”
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2 Chronicles 15:4
“But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
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Goethe
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
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Oscar Wilde
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
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Author Unknown
“Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.”
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Walt Disney
“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
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Mother Teresa
“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.”
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Rose F. Kennedy
“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?”
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Charles C. West
“We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.”
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John Steinbeck
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
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Neal A. Maxwell
"At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!"
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Author Unknown
“When Edison faced adversity in his quest to invent the light bulb he considered it knowledge of the many ways it does not work”
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Acts 14:22
“Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”
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2 Corinthians 12:10
“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”
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John F. Kennedy
“When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
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Theodore Rubin
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
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Agatha Christie:
“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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Author Unknown
We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
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Neal A. Maxwell
"The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others."
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Marion G. Romney
"My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction."
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Molinos
“Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation, which he permits for the purification and beautifying of the soul.”
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David O. McKay
“There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Adversity will surface in some form in every life. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger.”
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Arthur Golden
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
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John 16:33
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
“As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.”
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Richard C. Edgley
“There are few of us, if any, who don’t walk the refiner’s fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured.”
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Lucretius
“Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.”
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Lee Iacocca
“There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
"It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow..."
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R. LaVell Edwards
“When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we’re the Lone Ranger. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.”
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Izaak Walton
“Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.”
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John 16: 21
“A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.”
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James E. Faust
"Here then is a great truth. In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong."
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Garrison Keillor
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”
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Edwin Markham
“When the great oak is strained in the wind the boughs drink in new beauty, and the trunk sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.”
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2 Corinthians 11:24-28
“Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.”
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