Quotes and a Verse on Adversity...

Quotes and a Verse on Adversity

"We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials,
for we know that they help us develop endurance."
- Romans 5:3
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"A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine."
- An Old West Pioneer Saying
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"Do not become discouraged in the face of adversity because
you understand that the bigger the heart, the bigger the obstacles
it is asked to accommodate."
- Author Unknown
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"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage.
In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory
next time."
- Robert Collier
()

"A windmill's true power is revealed only when it faces the wind -
a person's only when they face adversity."
- Author Unknown
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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would
not be so welcome."
- Charlotte Bronte
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"If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself,
you can't help but learn."
- Bernie Siegel
()

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous
circumstances, would have lain dormant."
- Horace
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"There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire,
which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which
kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
- Washington Irving
()

"The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."
- Charles Caleb Colton
()

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles,
have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a
kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
- Walt Disney
()

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
- Frank A Clark
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"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire,
then you got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience."
- Robert Fulghum

Quotes for 4th of July...

Quotes for 4th of July

"America is much more than a geographical fact.
It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which
men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom,
responsible government, and human equality."
- Adlai Stevenson

"America is a tune. It must be sung together."
- Gerald Stanley Lee

"America is too great for small dreams."
- Ronald Reagan

"America is essentially a dream, a dream as yet unfulfilled.
It is a dream of a land where men of all races, of all nationalities
and of all creeds can live together as brothers."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"America is the greatest nation in history.
Measure it however you like. We are a mere five percent
of the world's population, but produce thirty percent of the goods
and services. In science, mathematics, and medicine, we walk away with
most of the Nobel Prizes. In Olympics, our amateurs defeat the state
supported athletic elite of other nations. And with America doing
eighty-five percent of all world giving,
you'd think we invented charity."
- Walter E. Williams

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your
country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you,
but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
- John F. Kennedy

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival
and success of liberty.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Liberty is the possibility of doubting,
the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and
experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority -
literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political."
– Ignazio Silone

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
- Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, 1863

"The United States is the only country with a known birthday."
- James G. Blaine

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
- Benjamin Franklin

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln

"May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy,
more lovely, than this our own country!"
- Daniel Webster

"And I'm proud to be an American,
where atleast I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me."
- Lee Greenwood

Overcoming Quotes...

Overcoming Quotes

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps
life moving, you lose that courage to be, the quality that helps
you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There ain't nothing from the outside
that can lick any of us."
- Margaret Mitchell

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog
in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The harder the conflict, the more
glorious the triumph."
- Thomas Paine

"Some minds seem almost to create themselves,
springing up under every disadvantage and working their
solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles."
- Washington Irving

"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has."
- Billy Graham

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
- Jean De La Bruyere

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be
so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome."
- Anne Bradstreet

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm
learning to sail my ship."
- Louisa May Alcott

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries
with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill

"All the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of overcoming it."
- Hellen Keller

*dedicated to John K., my hero