I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I’d seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
Adversity
Adams, Bryan
1959 Canadian-born American Musician Singer Songwriter
It takes a real storm in the average person’s life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
Adversity
Advisor, Heartland
The reward of suffering is experience.
Adversity
Aeschylus
BC 525-456 Greek Dramatist
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Adversity
Aesop
620-560 BC Greek Fabulist
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.
Adversity
Alcott, Louisa May
1832-1888 American Author
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us–and those around us — more effectively. Look for the learning.
Adversity
Allenbaugh, Eric
American Author of Wake-Up Calls
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Adversity
Angelis, Barbara De
American Expert on Relationship and Love Author
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Adversity
Ash, Mary Kay
American Businesswoman Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Adversity
Augustine, St.
354-430 Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo Theologian
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.
Adversity
Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Adversity
Avon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Adversity
Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Adversity
Barclay, H.K.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Adversity
Beecher, Henry Ward
1813-1887 American Preacher Orator Writer
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Adversity
Beecher, Henry Ward
1813-1887 American Preacher Orator Writer
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Adversity
Bennet, Arnold
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Adversity
Benson, Taylor
They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]
Adversity
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Adversity
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14]
Adversity
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]
Adversity
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist — it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Adversity
Billings, Josh
1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Adversity
Bradstreet, Anne
1612-1672 British Puritan Poet
Just because Fate doesn�t deal you the right cards, it doesn�t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Adversity
Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Adversity
Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness –a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
Adversity
Bryant, William C.
1794-1878 American Poet Newspaper Editor
Trials, temptations, disappointments — all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
Adversity
Buckham, James
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Adversity
Burata, Mario
It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Adversity
Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Adversity
Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
Adversity
Cady, Emilie
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Adversity
Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
No pressure, no diamonds.
Adversity
Case, Mary
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Adversity
Casey, M Kathleen
When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
Adversity
Chambers, Oswald
1874-1917 Scottish Preacher Author
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don’t faint when you are rebuked, and don’t despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
Adversity
Chambers, Oswald
1874-1917 Scottish Preacher Author
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Adversity
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
1814-1880 American Author Clergyman
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Adversity
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Adversity
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Adversity
Chin, Jerry
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Adversity
Cocteau, Jean
1889-1963 French Author Filmmaker
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Adversity
Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Adversity
Collins, Kitty O’neill
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Adversity
Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Adversity
Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Adversity
Coppola, Francis Ford
1939 American Director Cinematographer Magazine publisher
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders — what would you tell him to do? I don’t know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
Adversity
D’Anconia, Francisco
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Adversity
Devito, Danny
1944 American Actor Comedian
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Adversity
Dickinson, Emily
1830-1886 American Poet
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Adversity
Dune, Frank Herbert
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
Adversity
Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Adversity
Ellington, Duke
American jazz musician
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
Adversity
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine
Adversity
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
A man is a god in ruins.
Adversity
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.
Adversity
Epictetus
50-120 Stoic Philosopher
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Adversity
Fielding, Henry
1707-1754 British Novelist Dramatist
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Adversity
Forbes, Malcolm S.
1919-1990 American Publisher Businessman
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Adversity
Forbes, Malcolm S.
1919-1990 American Publisher Businessman
Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
Adversity
Ford, Elias A.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Adversity
Ford, Henry
1863-1947 American Industrialist Founder of Ford Motor Company
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Adversity
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
1878-1969 American Minister
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Adversity
France, Anatole
1844-1924 French Writer
I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.
Adversity
Frank, Anne
1929-1945 German Jewish Refugee Diarist
What is to give light must endure the burning.
Adversity
Frankl, Viktor E.
1905 Austrian Psychiatrist Neurology Writer Man’s Search for Meaning
The proof of gold is fire…
Adversity
Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
Adversity
Gallagher, Robert C.
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Adversity
Gesser
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Adversity
Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.
Adversity
Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
Adversity
Glasgow, Arnold H.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Adversity
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Adversity
Grant, Hanmer Parsons
Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Adversity
Hale, Edward Everett
1822-1909 American Unitarian Clergyman Writer
Some people bear three kinds of trouble — the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
Adversity
Hale, Edward Everett
1822-1909 American Unitarian Clergyman Writer
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
Adversity
Havner, Vance
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Adversity
Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Adversity
Hemingway, Ernest
1898-1961 American Writer
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Adversity
Heraclitus
BC 535-475 Greek Philosopher
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Adversity
Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
In my room as a kid… I’d play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Adversity
Hoffman, Dustin
1937 American Actor
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Adversity
Holtz, Lou
1937 American Football Coach
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Adversity
Homer
c 850 – BC Greek Epic Poet
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Adversity
Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Adversity
Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Adversity
Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Adversity
Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Adversity
Horace
BC 65-8 Italian Poet
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Adversity
Horton, Doug
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Adversity
Howe, Edgar Watson
1853-1937 American Journalist Author
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Adversity
Hugo, Victor
1802-1885 French Poet Dramatist Novelist
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Adversity
Irving, Washington
1783-1859 American Author
There is in every 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.
Adversity
Irving, Washington
1783-1859 American Author
I used to hurt so badly that I’d ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That’s the way I see it.
Adversity
Jackson, Janet
1966 American Musician Actress
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Adversity
James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Adversity
Johnson
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Adversity
Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Adversity
Jones, Charles ”Tremendous”
American Motivational Speaker Author
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
Adversity
Jonson, Ben
1573-1637 British Dramatist Poet
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
Adversity
Joshee, Anandabai
1865-1887 Indian Physician
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Adversity
Jung, Carl
1875-1961 Swiss Psychiatrist
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Adversity
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
1932 Polish Report and Foreign Correspondent
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Adversity
Keats, John
1795-1821 British Poet
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
Adversity
Kempis, Thomas
1379-1471 German Monk Mystic Religious Writer
Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
Adversity
Kempis, Thomas
1379-1471 German Monk Mystic Religious Writer
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Adversity
Kennedy, Rose F.
1890-1995 Mother of President John F Kennedy
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
Adversity
Kerr, Jean
1923 American Author Playwright
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Adversity
Kierkegaard, Soren
1813-1855 Danish Philosopher Writer
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Adversity
King Jr. Martin Luther
1929-1968 American Black Leader Nobel Prize Winner 1964
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Adversity
Kissinger, Henry
1923 American Republican Politician Secretary of State
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Adversity
Landers, Ann
1918 American Advice Columnist
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Adversity
Lawrence, Thomas E.
1888-1935 British Soldier Arabist Writer
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Adversity
Leighton, Robert
1611-1684 British Clergyman
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn’t want it any other way.
Adversity
Leonard, George
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that of one’s craft that a large part of genius consists.
Adversity
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
Adversity
Lowell, James Russell
1819-1891 American Poet Critic Editor
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
Adversity
Macdonald, George
1824-1905 Scottish Novelist
Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Adversity
Malcolm X
1925-1965 American Black Leader Activist
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Adversity
Maltz, Maxwell
American Plastic Surgeon Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Adversity
Mandino, Og
1923-1996 American Motivational Author Speaker
Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.
Adversity
Mandino, Og
1923-1996 American Motivational Author Speaker
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Adversity
Mandino, Og
1923-1996 American Motivational Author Speaker
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Adversity
Movie, Apollo 13
Only entropy comes easy.
Adversity
Mumford, Lewis
1895-1990 American Social Philosopher
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Adversity
Neal, John
What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.
Adversity
Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Adversity
Nixon, Richard M.
1913-1994 Thirty-seventh President of the USA
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.
Adversity
Paige, Leroy ”Satchel”
1906-1982 American Baseball Player
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Adversity
Paine, Thomas
1737-1809 Anglo-American Political Theorist Writer
They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Adversity
Parker, Dorothy
1893-1967 American Humorous Writer
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Adversity
Peale, Norman Vincent
1898-1993 American Christian Reformed Pastor Speaker Author
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Adversity
Peale, Norman Vincent
1898-1993 American Christian Reformed Pastor Speaker Author
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
Adversity
Penney, J. C. (James Cash)
1875-1971 American Retailer Philanthropist Founder JC Penny’s
The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it’s their problem. If I see a door comin’ my way, I’m knockin’ it down. And if I can’t knock down the door, I’m sliding through the window. I’ll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.
Adversity
Perez, Rosie
1963 American Actress Dancer Choreographer
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Adversity
Pike, Albert
1809-1891 American Lawyer Masonic Author Historian
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Adversity
Pliny The Elder
c23-79 Roman Neophatonist
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Adversity
Plutarch
46-120 AD Greek Essayist Biographer
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Adversity
Plutarch
46-120 AD Greek Essayist Biographer
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Adversity
Post, Laurens Van du
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Adversity
Propertius, Sextus
c48-c15 BC Italian Latin Elegiac Poet
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Adversity
Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Adversity
Proverb, English
Sayings of British Origin
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Adversity
Proverb, English
Sayings of British Origin
Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Adversity
Proverb, Italian
Sayings of Italian Origin
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Adversity
Proverb, Maori
Sayings of Maori Origin
Stumbling is not falling.
Adversity
Proverb, Portuguese
Sayings of Portuguese Origin
Any port in a storm.
Adversity
Proverb, Scottish
Sayings of Scottish Origin
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Adversity
Qur’an
Holy Book
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Adversity
Ransom, Ralph
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One’s life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
Adversity
Richards, Mary Caroline
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Adversity
Richter, Jean Paul
1763-1825 German Novelist
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door — or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Adversity
Rivers, Joan
1933 American Comedian Talk Show Host Actress
If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.
Adversity
Robert, Cavett
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Adversity
Roethke, Theodore
1908-1963 American Poet
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Adversity
Rogers, James
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.
Adversity
Rogers, Will
1879-1935 American Humorist Actor
People are like stained — glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within
Adversity
Ross, Elizabeth Kubler
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Adversity
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
1712-1778 Swiss Political Philosopher Educationist Essayist
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Adversity
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
1712-1778 Swiss Political Philosopher Educationist Essayist
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Adversity
Russell, Rosalind
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Adversity
Saadi
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Adversity
Salk, Lee
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Adversity
Sayers, Dorothy L.
1893-1957 British Author
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Adversity
Saying, Greek
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Adversity
Schmidt, Walt
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome –to be got over.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788-1860 German Philosopher
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
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Schuller, Robert H.
1926 American Minister (Crystal Cathedral) Author Social Leader
Every burden is a blessing.
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Schuller, Robert H.
1926 American Minister (Crystal Cathedral) Author Social Leader
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Adversity
Schwab, Charles M.
1862-1939 American Industrialist Businessman
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Adversity
Schweitzer, Albert
1875-1965 German Born Medical Missionary Theologian Musician and Philosopher
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Adversity
Scott, Sir Walter
1771-1832 British Novelist Poet
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Adversity
Scott, Sir Walter
1771-1832 British Novelist Poet
It’s a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don’t even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don’t just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.
Adversity
Seligman, Martin E. P.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Adversity
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Adversity
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Adversity
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Adversity
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Adversity
Seneca
4 BC � 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
Things were bad but now they are OK.
Adversity
Seymour, Harold J.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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Shain, Merle
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
If you want to win anything — a race, your self, your life — you have to go a little berserk.
Adversity
Sheehan, George
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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Sirach
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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Smiles, Samuel
1812-1904 Scottish Author
Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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Sting
1951 British-born American Musician Singer Songwriter Actor
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
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Swahili Warrior Song
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
55-117 AD Roman Historian
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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Tacitus, Publius Cornelius
55-117 AD Roman Historian
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Tagore, Rabindranath
1861-1941 Indian Poet Philosopher
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
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Talmud, The
BC 500-400 AD Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man s, I mean.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
Adversity
Unknown, Source
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.
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Unknown, Source
There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.
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Unknown, Source
There are times in everyone’s life when something constructive is born out of adversity… when things seem so bad that you’ve got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
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Unknown, Source
Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth
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Unknown, Source
No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.
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Unknown, Source
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them
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Unknown, Source
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Unknown, Source
Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.
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Unknown, Source
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
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Unknown, Source
We need tough days to drive us to our knees.
Adversity
Unknown, Source
We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn’t the case.
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Unknown, Source
Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn’t panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.
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Unknown, Source
Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
Adversity
Unknown, Source
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don’t know it.
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Unknown, Source
He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.
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Unknown, Source
Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
Adversity
Unknown, Source
If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.
Adversity
Unknown, Source
If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.
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Unknown, Source
If you’re on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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Unknown, Source
In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.
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Unknown, Source
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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Unknown, Source
I didn’t know I’d have to be torn down before I could be built up.
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Unknown, Source
Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them
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Unknown, Source
You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
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Virgil
c 70 – 19 BC Roman Poet
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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Walton, Sam
1918-1992 American Businessman Founder of Wal-Mart Stores
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
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Ward, William A.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
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Warren, Earl
1891-1974 American Politician Judge
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
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Weil, Simone
1910-1943 French Philosopher Mystic
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
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Wells, H.G.
1866-1946 British-born American Author
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Adversity
Weltman, Phil
American Business Executive William Morris Agency
A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog — keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
Adversity
Westcott, Edward Noyes
1847-1898 American Author
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot’s at the other end.
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Whitney, Bert
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
1855-1919 American Poet Journalist
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
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Winfrey, Oprah
1954 American TV Personality Producer Actress Author
One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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Woolf, Virginia
1882-1941 British Novelist Essayist
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Adversity
Ziglar, Zig
American Sales Trainer Author Motivational Speaker
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Adversity
Zwanzig, Carl