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Adversity is the midwife of genius

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In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

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Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

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If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.

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Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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Much of your pain is self-chosen.

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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

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When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

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You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

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Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

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Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

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It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

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Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

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