Managing Adversity - 1

• What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. --Blaine Lee
• Adversity sometimes is the only diet that will reduce a fat head. --Unknown
• The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity. Margaret J. Wheatley, philosopher
• Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too.  --Edmund Burke
• Consider the past and you shall know the future. - Chinese Proverb 
• Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.- Dr. Sigmund Freud
• If you are unhappy with your present.. examine (change) you past actions or inactions!  Med Yones
• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, under prosperous conditions, may have remained dormant. --Horace
• Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. --George S. Patton 
• Adversity is like the rain of spring. --Chinese Proverb
• Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. --Horace
• A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them. --Charles Caleb Colton
• All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. --Samuel Butler
• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. --Walt Disney
• A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. --Charles de Gaulle
• A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. --English proverb
• Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. --Norman Vincent Peale
• Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them. --Unknown
• Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart. --Myla Kabat-Zinn
• Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit. -- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
• Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. --Norman Vincent Peale
• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. --Alfred D. Souza
• For man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abadonment and poverty are battefields which have their heroes--obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. --Victor Hugo
• Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. --William Saroyan
• Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. --Seneca
• He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later. --Henry Fielding
• If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. --Larry Leissner
• If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane. --Anonymous
• If you don't have something to overcome, you'll be overcome by complacency. --Randall D. Worley
• If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. --Bernie Siegel, MD
• In adversity, remember to keep an even mind. --Horace
• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. --Robert Collier
• It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. --Horace
• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. --Seneca
• It is not the greatness of our trouble but the littleness of our spirit that makes us complain. --Jeremy Taylor
• Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. --William Butler Yeats
• Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. --M. Scott Peck

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