Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Adversity.

The repository contains 71 quotes in the category “Adversity.”
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What is to give light must endure burning.

Victor Frankl
1905 — 1997

No one deserves praise for being honest when no one tries to corrupt.

Cicero
106 A.D. — 43

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Emperor Marcus Aurelius
121 — 180 A.D.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can man be perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you and you have to battle with only one of them.

President Calvin Coolidge
1872 — 1933

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
1932 —     

When you are up to your ears in alligators, it is difficult to remember that the reason you are there is to drain the swamp.

Unknown

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and then slip quietly away.

Tom Brokaw
1940 —     

The school of necessity is kept by a violent mistress.

Michel de Montaigne
1533 — 1592

Man’s nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats.

Blaise Pascal
1623 — 1662

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