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When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
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The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.
- Thomas Jefferson
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
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Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Adversity can crush our spirit -
or strengthen it - it is our choice.
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Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
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In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
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Be open to the goodness of life -
even in the midst of apparent adversity.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The experience of democracy is like
the experience of life itself -
always changing, infinite in its variety,
sometimes turbulent
and all the more valuable
for having been tested by adversity.
- Jimmy Carter
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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