Aristotle

If the infeasible occurs, it's because that which was infeasible is actually feasible.

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Concepción Arenal

The more that obstacles are broken down, the easier they are to vanquish.

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Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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Woody Allen

Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come.

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Charles de Gaulle

Character is the virtue of difficult times.

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Carlo Bini

I admire the head that can carry misfortune with haughtiness, as the king carries his crown.

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Martin Friedrich von Bodenstedt

Pain also needs relief; a man overwhelmed by pain feels no shame in his tears.

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William Ellery Channing

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

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Frédéric François Chopin

Every difficulty eluded later becomes a phantom that disturbs our rest.

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Euripides

Misfortune ends by dying down. The winds don't always blow from the same direction or with equal strength.

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William Faulkner

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One would be forgiven for believing that misfortune will come to an end and fade away, but that's the time it becomes our misfortune.

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François De Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

Adversity depends less on the evils we suffer, than it does is on the imagination with which we suffer them.

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Henry Ford

Most people spend more time and energy in avoiding problems than in trying to solve them.

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Sigmund Freud

I've been a very fortunate man: nothing in my life came easily.

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Samuel Johnson

A man accustomed to adversity is not easily surprised.

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Charles Lamb

Bear your cross singing and not sighing. In any market, a smile is worth a thousand tears.

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Michel E. De Montaigne

He who fears suffering, suffers already that which he fears.

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Juan Manuel de Palacio

The day in which misfortune finds it's way to your home, move house.

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Periandro

If misfortune befalls you, hide it so that your enemies may not be contented.

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Charles Régismanset

We attribute our misfortunes to chance, but never our prosperities.
Misfortune makes one virtuous. A happy man would never have invented virtue.

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Friedrich von Schiller

During great hardship all noble souls come to know themselves better.

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Franz Schubert

He who suffers adversity with lament causes himself all the more pain.

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George Bernard Shaw

The secret to not being happy lies in having time to wonder about whether you're happy or not.

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Niccolo Tommaseo

The man that pain fails to educate, will always be a child.

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Oscar Wilde

The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them. My experience of misfortune taught me to come to the aid of the unfortunate.

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William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in its head

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André Gide

It's extremely rare that a mountain be steep from all sides

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D. H. Lawrence

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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