Quotations on Adversity

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No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to
shape the soul and let the glory out.

Al Gore Sr.  (1907-1998)
U.S. Senator from Tennessee
(Father of U.S. Vice President Al Gore)

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. -- Richard M. Nixon

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
   - Aldous Huxley

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. -- Richard M. Nixon

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

The only way around is through. --Robert Frost

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either. --Source Unknown

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. -- H.K. Barclay

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. -- Robert Collier

Tough times never last, but tough people do. -- Robert H. Schuller

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. -- William A. Ward

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. -- Source Unknown

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. -- English Proverb

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. -- Lee Salk

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. -- Dale Carnegie

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly. -- Louis Mann

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.    - Michael Jordan

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.   - Moliere

"After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after
every storm, there comes clear, open skies."

Samuel Rutherford, 1600-1661
Scottish Author and Minister

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That
will be the beginning. - Louis L'Amour