Success...Negative
Factors...ADVERSITY
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0287 P
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— Art Linkletter
ADVERSITY, Attitude, Optimism
0288 PA
“Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties that
do not exist.” — E(dgar) W(atson) Howe
ADVERSITY, Perseverance, Pessimism, Failure, Perception, Decision Making
0289 P
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
— Hannah Moore
ADVERSITY, Fear, Perseverance, Personal Management
0290
“The burden which is well borne becomes light.” — Ovid
ADVERSITY, Attitude
0291
“Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.” — Pliny the Younger
ADVERSITY, Wealth
0292 C
“He who has not tasted bitter does not know what sweet is.” — German Proverb
ADVERSITY, Sadness, Happiness, Perception
0293 CA
“There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.” — Publilius Syrus
ADVERSITY, Sadness, Optimism
0294 CA
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempests.” — Epicurus
ADVERSITY, Fame, Winning
0295 P
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the
obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” — Booker T. Washington
ADVERSITY, Fame, Perseverance, Age, Change
0296 A
“Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.”
— Frank Harris
ADVERSITY, Perseverance, Self-Confidence, Pessimism
0297 A
“Our sorrows are like thunder clouds, which seem black in the distance, but grow lighter as they
approach.” — Jean Paul Richter
ADVERSITY, Sadness, Optimism, Perception
0298 A
“Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers on their road. Both appear great
at a distance, but when we approach them we find they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.” — Charles Caleb Colton
ADVERSITY, Optimism, Self-Confidence, Sin, Age
0299 A
“The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.” — Chinese Proverb
ADVERSITY, Optimism, Excellence
0300 P
“It is best to bear what can’t be altered.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
ADVERSITY, Sadness, Patience
0301 P
“What can’t be cured must be endured.” — Francois Rabelais
ADVERSITY, Health & Fitness, Sadness, Patience
0302 A
“I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes.” — Henry J. Kaiser
ADVERSITY, Perception, Decision Making
0303 A
“We cannot direct the wind... but we can adjust the sails.” — Unknown
ADVERSITY, Personal Management, Chance
0304
“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.”
— Sir Fulke Greville
ADVERSITY, Sadness, Motivation, Procrastination
0305 A
“The good are better made by ill,
As odors crush’d are sweeter still.” — Carl Ransom Rogers
ADVERSITY, Attitude, Sadness, Doubt
0306
“For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”
— Bette Howland
ADVERSITY, Procrastination, Attitude, Personal Management, Potential, Age
0307 HA
“The smallest hole will eventually empty the largest container, unless it is made intentionally
for drainage, in which case it will clog.” — Grissom’s Law
ADVERSITY, Chance
ADVERSITY Cross-References
Wealth—20, 27, 43 • Optimism—116, 129 •
Perseverance—134-137, 141, 143-145, 147-149, 153-154, 160 •
Courage—185 • Self-Confidence—202 • Doubt—352 •
Sadness—374, 376, 383-384 • Failure—398 • Attitude—411 •
Effectiveness—470 • Potential—483-484, 501 • Ignorance—502 •
Decision-Making—687, 690 • Genius—704 • Originality—732 •
Greed—891 • God—989 • Faith—1000 •
Accountability—1156 • War & Peace—1319 •
Death—1469
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