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People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

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When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

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It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

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If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

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If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

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I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.

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Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

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I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did.

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They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

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Adversity is the mother of progress.

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

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Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

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