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“Be grateful for your challenges, setbacks, adversity and disappointments. Be grateful for your opportunity to overcome every single one, because doing so contributes to your growth & your ability to help others overcome theirs.”

Helping Opportunity Growth Challenges Ability Gratitude Overcoming Adversity Grateful Disappointment Helping Others Be Grateful Setback

Author:Hal Elrod

“My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.”

People Character Ability Mark Adversity Crisis Again And Again Tenacity Bounce

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“The best antidote to stress is resilience... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.”

Ability Stress Adversity Resilience Antidote

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.”

Ability Tests Adversity Painful Misfortunes Resiliency

Book:Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life

Source: Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life

“The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!”

Firsts Ability Events Depends Truth Is Adversity Accumulation

Book:The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness

Source: The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness

“In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”

“We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret.”

People Wells Has Beens Government Able Together Faces Moving Culture Community Ability Secret Majors Adversity Extraordinary Moving Forward Tribes Upheaval Kept Secrets Cherokee

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

“A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success”

People Needs Kind Important Certain Loss Ability Emotion Brain Crazy Discipline Terrible Adversity Extremes Driven Investors Irrational Temperament Going Crazy

Author:Charlie Munger