adversity

1.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

- Swahili Warrior Song

2.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

- Seneca

3.

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.

- Allenbaugh, Eric

4.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

5.

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

- Gesser

6.

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

7.

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

8.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

- Socrates

9.

The reward of suffering is experience.

- Aeschylus

10.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

- Seneca

11.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

- Homer

12.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

14.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

- Seneca

15.

When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

- Barclay, H.K.

16.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.

- Warren, Earl

17.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

- Kapuscinski, Ryszard

18.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

19.

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.

- Macdonald, George

20.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von