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“Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.”
“Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.”
“Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.”
“There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.”
“Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
“Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.”
“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.”
“Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.”
“I don't deserve this award but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.”
“Treasure the memories of past misfortunes they constitute our bank of fortitude.”
“I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.”
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
“If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem t...”
“People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.”
“The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.”
“Necessity is often the spur to genius.”
“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference by philosophy and by religion.”
“Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."”
“Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.”
“Necessity makes even the timid brave.”
