adversity

1.

Stumbling is not falling.

- Proverb, Portuguese

2.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

- Carlyle, Thomas

3.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

- Gesser

4.

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

5.

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

- Cicero

6.

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

- Wells, H.G.

7.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

- Maltz, Maxwell

8.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

- Victor Marie Hugo

9.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

- Coppola, Francis Ford

10.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

- Sirach

11.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

12.

Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.

- Proverb, Italian

13.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

- Chilo

14.

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

- Collins, Kitty O'neill

15.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

- Schuller, Robert H.

16.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

- Weltman, Phil

17.

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.

- Robert, Cavett

18.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare

19.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

- Schwab, Charles M.

20.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

- Frankl, Viktor E.