adversity

1.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

- Richter, Jean Paul

2.

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.

- Mandino, Og

3.

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

- Ambrose Bierce

4.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.

- Mark Twain

5.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

- Collins, Kitty O'neill

6.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

- Proverb

7.

Only entropy comes easy.

- Mumford, Lewis

8.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

- Bacon, Francis

9.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

- Salk, Lee

10.

Stumbling is not falling.

- Proverb, Portuguese

11.

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.

- Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

12.

They sicken at the calm that know the storm.

- Parker, Dorothy

13.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

- Pliny The Elder

14.

Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.

- Proverb

15.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

- Wells, H.G.

16.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

- Plutarch

17.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

- Samuel Johnson

18.

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

19.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

- Scott, Sir Walter

20.

The reward of suffering is experience.

- Aeschylus