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“Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!”

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Author:Adam Johnson
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“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”

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Book:Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
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“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”

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Book:Iacocca: An Autobiography
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“Building discipline, earning respect and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you can be and how you go about being successful in life.”

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Author:Walt Frazier
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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.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more
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“Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.”

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Book:The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)
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“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

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Book:I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence
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“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”

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Book:The unfinished country: a book of American symbols
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln
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“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”

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Book:Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949
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“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

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Author:Moliere
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“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”

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Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c
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“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon
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“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

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Author:Satchel Paige
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“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”

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Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon
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“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

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Book:One to one: understanding personal relationships
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“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

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Book:Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People
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“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.”

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Author:Robert H. Schuller
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“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer
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“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.”

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Book:Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
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“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.”

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Book:Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
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“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

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Book:Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

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Book:An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard
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“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

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Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783
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“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

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Book:The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations
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