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“Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.”
“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.”
“Treasure the memories of past misfortunes they constitute our bank of fortitude.”
“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 to be.”
“People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
“Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.”
“Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.”
“If you do things well do them better. Be daring be first be different be just.”
“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.”
“Difficulties opposition criticism - these things are meant to be overcome and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life l...”
“They sicken of calm who know the storm.”
“When the going gets tough the tough get going.”
“Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways”
“Down you mongrel Death! Back into your kennel!”
“Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.”
“Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.”
“It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.”
“When things come to the worse they generally mend.”
