There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
French Proverb
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Horace
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Ovid
All sunshine makes the desert.
Arabian Proverb
Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
Plato
Adversity is the mother of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow
SUCCESS in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Horace
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Confucius
Benjamin Disraeli
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
French Proverb
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Horace
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Ovid
All sunshine makes the desert.
Arabian Proverb
Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
Plato
Adversity is the mother of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow
SUCCESS in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Horace
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Confucius
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Danish Proverb
Obstacles are great incentives.
Jules Michelet
There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
Ovid
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Albert Careb
I think the challenge is to take...difficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.
Michelle Akers
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If it did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Charlotte Bronte
Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.
James Sharp
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Chinese Proverb
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
J. H. Vincent
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.
E. E. Hale
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Proverb
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Kossuth
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,
We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Anonymous
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Danish Proverb
Obstacles are great incentives.
Jules Michelet
There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
Ovid
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Albert Careb
I think the challenge is to take...difficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.
Michelle Akers
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If it did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Charlotte Bronte
Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.
James Sharp
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Chinese Proverb
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
J. H. Vincent
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser
Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.
E. E. Hale
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Proverb
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Kossuth
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,
We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Anonymous