Quotes from the greatest minds

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"my luck was my father not striking it rich...we'd have been rich. i'd never have set out for hollywood with my camera, and i'd have had a lot less interesting life."- king vidor

"i was lucky i wasn't a better boxer, or that's what i'd be now--a punchy ex-pug."- bob hope

"of all the advantages which come to any young man...poverty is the greatest."- josiah g. holland

"in my youth, poverty enriched me, but now i can afford wealth."- marc chagell

"americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich."- robert frost

"i would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. i was forced to come up the hard way."- j.c. penney

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"adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becames acquainted with himself."- samuel johnson

"adversity introduces a man to himself."- anonymous

"i thank God for my handicaps for, through them, i have found myself, my work, and my God."- helen keller

"a woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water."- nancy reagan

"in the depth of winter, i finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."- albert camus

"we only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid."- thomas bernhard

"even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something."- frederick w. robertson

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"forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."- herbert gasser

"you can learn little from victory. you can learn everything from defeat."- christy mathewson

"trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom."- anonymous

"a smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."- english proverb

"when a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits...he has gained facts, learned his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation and real skill."- ralph waldo emerson

"by becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so."- madame swetchine

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how about this voltaire quote to refreshen the page today? sounds good.

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"a good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."- edgar watson howe

"we only think when we are confronted with a problem."- john dewey

"adversity comes with instruction in its hand."- anonymous

"prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it."- william hanzlitt

"wisdom comes by disillusionment."- george santayana

"i have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that didn't work out. that's when i've really learned."- carol burnett

"pain is the root of knowledge."- simone weil

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"the good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
-marcus annaeus seneca

"adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."- horace

"the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude."- francis bacon

"in victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited."- sallust

"adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
-thomas carlyle

"there is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle."- robert alden

"when it is dark enough, you can see the stars."- charles a. beard

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"all sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted."- janet erskine stuart

"there is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by."- george meredith

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."- anonymous

"there are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."- charles caleb colton

"the same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body."- william hazlitt

"flowers grow out of dark moments"- corita kent

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"victories that are cheap are cheap. those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."- henry ward beecher

"the greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."- moliere

"the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. what we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly."- thomas paine

"the fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation."- abraham lincoln

"to conquer without risk is to triumph without glory."- pierre corneille

"there could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."- t.e. lawrence (lawrence of arabia)

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a quote for sunday.

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
― Pema Chödrön

[weimy froob]

"in order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness--otherwise how would you know when you're happy."
- leslie caron

"to really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they're better than."- oscar homoka

"who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet."- german proverb

"no man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil."- anonymous

"sleep, riches and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted."- jean paul fichter

"if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."- dolly parton

"if you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm."- frank lane

[CasualObserverGuy]

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." -Thomas Sowell

"Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality." -Sowell also

[weimy froob]

"anything other than death is a minor injury."- bill muncey

"if your house is on fire, warm yourself by it."- spanish proverb

"when written in chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
-john f. kennedy

"from a fallen tree, make kindling."- spanish proverb

"to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage."- w. clement stone

"the same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire."- pierre de beaumarchais

"adversity is the first path to truth."- lord byron

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wrapping up the adversity chapter today.

"what the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly."- richard bach

"let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful."- e.m. cioran

"sweet are the uses of adversity."- william shakespeare

"strength does not comes from winning. your struggles develop your strengths. when you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."- arnold schwarzenegger

"the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."- martin luther king

"i walk firmer and more secure up hill than down."- michel de montaigne

"do not fee a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."- g.k. chesterton

"if we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else."- rienhold neibuhr

"great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men...crisis shows us what we have become."
-bishop westcott

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a new chapter: reacting to events (the penultimate one.)

"all that is necessary is to accept the unacceptable, do without the indispensable, and bear the unbearable."- kathleen norris

"mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."- james russell lowell

"fortune does not change men; it unmasks them."- madame necker

"i love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."- thomas paine

"wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."- william shakespeare

"life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of."- josh billings

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i'll go with just one this morning because it's pretty long, baseball related and it comes from the esteemed manager connie mack. pretty sure it's the only time he's been quoted in this thread. it's also quite good.

"i have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them, and i have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. i guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. the first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself."- connie mack