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Quotes
and Proverbs to Overcome Problems and Deal with
Adversity
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Progress depends upon what we are, rather than upon what
we may encounter. One man is stopped by a sapling lying
across the road; another, passing that way, picks up the
hindrance and converts it into a help in crossing the
brook just ahead. We are too apt to think that our progress
in a given case will depend solely upon the obstacles
we may run against. It is more likely to depend upon what
runs against the obstacles.
- Henry Clay Trumbull
Nature,
when she adds difficulties, adds brains.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity
has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous
circumstances would have lain dormant.
- Horace
Failures
are but the pillars of success.
- Welsh Proverb
Obstacles
are great incentives.
- Michelet
It
is not ease, but effort; not faculty, but difficulty,
that makes a man.
- Unknown
It
is the old lesson—a worthy purpose, patient energy for
its accomplishment, a resoluteness undaunted by difficulties,
and then success.
- W. M. Punshon
Treat
failures as stepping-stones to further effort.
- The President of the London
Chamber of Commerce, circa early 1900s
Do
not yield to misfortunes, but meet them on the contrary
with fortitude.
- Virgil
Failures
are but the pillars of success.
- Welsh Proverb
A
good resolve will make any port.
-
Horace
The
archer who misses the target turns to himself and not
to another for the cause of his failure.
- Confucius
We
learn wisdom from failure more than from success; we often
discover what will do by finding out what will not do.
- Samuel Smiles
He
is the most wretched of men who has never experienced
adversity.
- Latin Proverb
The
child, through stumbling, learns to walk erect. Every
fall is a fall upward.
- Theodore Parker
The
greatest men have been those who have cut their way to
success through difficulties.
- F. W. Robertson
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The
gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected
without trials.
- Dutch Proverb
