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Never give in. Never, never, never.
― Winston Churchill
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
— Oprah Winfrey
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.
— Jodi Picoult
It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
— Drew Barrymore
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
― Epictetus
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
— Steve Maraboli
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
— Maya Angelou
If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
— Shane Koyczan
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
― Duke Ellington
No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.
— Greg Kincaid
Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.
— Demi Lovato
Hard times are sometimes blessings in disguise. We do have to suffer but in the end it makes us strong, better and wise.
— Anurag Prakash Ray
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
― Duke Ellington
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
― Thich Nhat Hanh
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
― Leroy Satchel Paige
It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.
― Doe Zantamata
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Confucius
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
― Jim Rohn
Confidence, courage and determined spirit are vital for surviving hard times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
― Dolly Parton
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
— Robert Jordan
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
― Og Mandino
The onlye difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
― L. M. Montgomery
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
― Elie Weisel
Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.
― Norman Vincent Peale
We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.
― John H. Groberg
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
― Publilius Syrus
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
― Ulysses S. Grant
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
― William Samuel Johnson
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
― Chinese Proverb
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
― William Hazlitt
The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
― Nelson Mandela
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.
― Napoleon Hill
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
― Jewish Proverb
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
― Seneca
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
― Robert Frost
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
― Robert Schuller
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
Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
― Francis Bacon
We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
― Henry Ford
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
― Robert Schuller
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
― Kenji Miyazawa
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
Use what you’ve been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!
― Yvonne Pierre
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
― William James
Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
― John Wooden
The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.
― Deepak Chopra
It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.
― Confucius
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
― Mary Engelbreit
To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.
― Barbara DeAngelis
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
― Japanese Proverb
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
― Albert Schweitzer
It’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.
― Sara Evans
I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me.
― Dr. Seuss
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
― James Allen
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
― Malcolm S. Forbes
When the going gets tough – the tough get going!
― John Belushi, Animal House
The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
― Napoleon Hill
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, “I will try again tomorrow.
― Mary Anne Radmacher
To have darkness behind me, in front of me a bright sky, flickering lights on the water and to feel it on the stony face of the southern sun.
― Julia Hartwig
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
― Jacques Prevert
Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up, as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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