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  • If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

  • The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

    Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.71, Hachette UK
  • Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  • Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

    Love   Peace   Fall  
  • We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.356, Da Capo Press
  • Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

  • Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

    Life   Adversity   Faces  
    François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.184
  • The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

    YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.
  • The course of true anything never does run smooth.

    Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”
  • One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  • The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

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

    FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 26, 2014
  • Tough times never last, but tough people do.

    Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
  • There is in every true 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.

    Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.39, e-artnow
  • The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

  • We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

    Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
  • The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

    Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”
  • Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

    "Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel".
  • We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

  • I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

    Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group
  • The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

    Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.5643, e-artnow
  • He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

    Love   Courage   Strong  
    "The Christian Herald", Vol. 92, p. 72, 1969.
  • Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

  • Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

  • Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

  • I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

    Life   Spring   Real  
  • Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

    "The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…".
  • There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

    Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.92
  • It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

  • 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.

    Adversity   Fate   Born  
    Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam
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