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African Proverb

A rose issues from thorns.

Topic: Adversity
Location: Gulf of Mexico
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

More Quotes from African Proverb

He who argues builds no roads. — African Proverb

Communication Conflict Listening Negotiation Persuasion

Peace is costly but it is worth the expense. — African Proverb

Desire doesn't equal destiny. — African Proverb

Action Desire Destiny Determination

Where there was a skunk there is a smell. — African Proverb

Silence is talk too. — African Proverb

Communication Listening

Little by little the bird builds its nest. — African Proverb

Action Goals Persistence Purpose Work

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. — African Proverb

The death of an elderly man is like a burning library. — African Proverb

Peace is the father of friendship. — African Proverb

Friendship Peace

More Quotes from Gulf of Mexico

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. — Elbert Hubbard

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Awareness Perception Self Thinking

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. — Samuel Johnson

Action Consistent Work

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world. — Dalai Lama

Anger Peace Practice Self

Nothing is obnoxious as other people's luck. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents the one percent of your work which results only from 99 percent that is called failure. — Soichiro Honda

Dreams Failure Success

There are people who have money and people who are rich. — Coco Chanel

Character Happiness Money

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. — Cicero

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. — Maya Angelou

Creativity Innovation Perception

More on Adversity

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon

Adversity Fear Hope

It makes us, or it mars us. — William Shakespeare

A man who never fell down is one who never lived. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Adversity Courage Life Persistence

Kill reverence and you’ve killed the hero in man. — Ayn Rand

All adversity I’ve had in my life, has 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

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

› Kahlil Gibran

Adversity Happiness

The remedy against bad times is to have patience with them. — African Proverb

Adversity Patience

Deny the gift of adversity and the offer disappears. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Adversity Faith Life Mistakes

Everybody has their days of misfortune. — Louisa May Alcott

Adversity Misfortune

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner. — Vince Lombardi

Adversity Discipline Excellence Faith

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller

Adversity Misfortune Optimism Pain

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud and makes his owner stoop. — William Shakespeare

Adversity Grief

Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. — John 16:33

Adversity Gratitude

You learn by doing and falling over. — Richard Branson

Action Adversity

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Adversity Courage Defeat Misfortune

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth. — Thomas Fuller

Adversity Misfortune

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are much more important than the events that occur. — Vince Lombardi

Adversity Goals Purpose

Our greatest glory is not never failing, but in rising every time we fail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adversity Failure Misfortune

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. — Martin Luther King Jr.

No garden is without its weeds.

› Thomas Fuller

I can see, and that is why I can be so happy, in what you call the dark. But which to me is golden, I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world. — Helen Keller

Adversity Perception

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

› Jeffrey Benjamin

Adversity Dreams Gratitude

There is in the worst fortunes the best of chances for a happy change. — Euripides

Adversity Change Happiness Stress

In all abundance there is lack. — Hippocrates

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