“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
“I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.”
“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.”
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
“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.”
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
“Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.”
“To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
“The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”
“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”
“Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?”
“The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.”
“One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
“Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.”
“Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.”
“It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.”
“Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.”
“Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!”
“We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.”
“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.”
“Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.”
“If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.”
“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.”
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”
“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.”