Quote: Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. [Isaiah 48:10]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism Quote: Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. [Mathew 7:13-14] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: They that sow in tears shall reap joy. [Psalms 126:5]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Author: Anne Bradstreet 1612-1672, British Puritan Poet
Quote: Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
Author: William C. Bryant 1794-1878, American Poet, Newspaper Editor
Quote: Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
Author: James Buckham
Quote: Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Author: Mario Burata
Quote: Adversity is the first path to truth.
Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
Author: Emilie Cady
Quote: Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: No pressure, no diamonds.
Author: Mary Case
Quote: Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Author: M Kathleen Casey
Quote: We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. ''In your patience possess your souls.''
Author: Oswald Chambers 1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author
Quote: When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
Author: Oswald Chambers 1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author
Quote: Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin 1814-1880, American Author, Clergyman
Quote: Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Author: Jerry Chin
Quote: The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Author: Jean Cocteau 1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker
Quote: In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Author: Kitty O'neill Collins
Quote: Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Author: Francis Ford Coppola 1939-, American Director, Cinematographer, Magazine publisher,
Quote: If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
Author: Francisco D'Anconia
Quote: In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Author: Danny Devito 1944-, American Actor, Comedian
Quote: A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Author: Frank Herbert Dune
Quote: There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Author: Duke Ellington American jazz musician
Quote: A man is a god in ruins.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
Author: Bryan Adams 1959-, Canadian-born American Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
Author: Heartland Advisor
Quote: The reward of suffering is experience.
Author: Aeschylus BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist
Quote: Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Author: Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist
Quote: I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Author: Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888, American Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Eric Allenbaugh American Author of ''Wake-Up Calls''
Quote: You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Author: Barbara De Angelis American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author
Quote: When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Author: Mary Kay Ash American Businesswoman, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
Quote: God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Quote: Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''
Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
Quote: Every silver lining has a cloud.
Author: Avon
Quote: Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: When walking through the ''valley of shadows,'' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Author: H.K. Barclay
Quote: Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Author: Arnold Bennet
Quote: It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Author: Taylor Benson
Quote: He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: Failure is success if we learn from it.
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman
Quote: When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes 1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman
Quote: Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
Author: Elias A. Ford
Quote: Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969, American Minister
Quote: Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer
Quote: I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.
Author: Anne Frank 1929-1945, German Jewish Refugee, Diarist
Quote: What is to give light must endure the burning.
Author: Viktor E. Frankl 1905-, Austrian Psychiatrist, Neurology, Writer, ''Man's Search for Meaning''
Quote: The proof of gold is fire...
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Author: Robert C. Gallagher
Quote: Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Author: Gesser
Quote: March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
Author: Arnold H. Glasgow
Quote: The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Author: Hanmer Parsons Grant
Quote: Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Author: Edward Everett Hale 1822-1909, American Unitarian Clergyman, Writer
Quote: Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
Author: Edward Everett Hale 1822-1909, American Unitarian Clergyman, Writer
Quote: Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, ''Shake well before using.'' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
Author: Vance Havner
Quote: Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer
Quote: It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Author: Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Author: Dustin Hoffman 1937-, American Actor
Quote: Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Author: Lou Holtz 1937-, American Football Coach
Quote: Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Author: Homer c. 850 -? BC, Greek Epic Poet
Quote: A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Author: Doug Horton
Quote: Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author
Quote: Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Author: Washington Irving 1783-1859, American Author
Quote: There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Author: Washington Irving 1783-1859, American Author
Quote: I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
Author: Janet Jackson 1966-, American Musician, Actress
Quote: Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Author: Johnson
Quote: Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Charles ''Tremendous'' Jones American Motivational Speaker, Author
Quote: He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
Author: Ben Jonson 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
Author: Anandabai Joshee 1865-1887, Indian Physician
Quote: We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
Quote: Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski 1932, Polish Report and Foreign Correspondent
Quote: Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
Author: Thomas p Kempis 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer
Quote: As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
Author: Thomas p Kempis 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer
Quote: Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Author: Rose F. Kennedy 1890-1995, Mother of President John F. Kennedy
Quote: If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Author: Jean Kerr 1923-, American Author, Playwright
Quote: Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
Quote: Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Author: Henry Kissinger 1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State
Quote: Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Author: Ann Landers 1918-, American Advice Columnist
Quote: There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Author: Thomas E. Lawrence 1888-1935, British Soldier, Arabist, Writer
Quote: Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Author: Robert Leighton 1611-1684, British Clergyman
Quote: In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.
Author: George Leonard
Quote: It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: 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.
Author: George Macdonald 1824-1905, Scottish Novelist
Quote: Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist
Quote: You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''
Quote: Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Author: Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
Quote: Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.
Author: Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
Quote: 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.
Author: Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
Quote: You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Author: Apollo 13 Movie
Quote: Only entropy comes easy.
Author: Lewis Mumford 1895-1990, American Social Philosopher
Quote: A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Author: John Neal
Quote: What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Author: Richard M. Nixon 1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA
Quote: Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Author: Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige 1906?-1982, American Baseball Player
Quote: I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Author: Thomas Paine 1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer
Quote: They sicken at the calm that know the storm.
Author: Dorothy Parker 1893-1967, American Humorous Writer
Quote: Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
Author: J. C. (James Cash) Penney 1875-1971, American Retailer, Philanthropist, Founder JC Penny's
Quote: The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.
Author: Rosie Perez 1963-, American Actress, Dancer, Choreographer
Quote: That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
Author: Albert Pike 1809-1891, American Lawyer, Masonic Author, Historian
Quote: Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Author: Pliny The Elder c.23-79, Roman Neophatonist
Quote: Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer
Quote: Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer
Quote: The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Author: Laurens Van du Post
Quote: The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Author: Sextus Propertius c.48-c.15 BC, Italian Latin Elegiac Poet
Quote: A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: A stumble may prevent a fall.
Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us.
Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Author: Maori Proverb Sayings of Maori Origin
Quote: Stumbling is not falling.
Author: Portuguese Proverb Sayings of Portuguese Origin
Quote: Any port in a storm.
Author: Scottish Proverb Sayings of Scottish Origin
Quote: Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Author: Qur'an Holy Book
Quote: All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Author: Ralph Ransom
Quote: Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
Author: Mary Caroline Richards
Quote: Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Author: Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825, German Novelist
Quote: 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.
Author: Joan Rivers 1933-, American Comedian, Talk Show Host, Actress
Quote: 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.
Author: Cavett Robert
Quote: In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
Author: Theodore Roethke 1908-1963, American Poet
Quote: Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Author: James Rogers
Quote: 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.
Author: Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor
Quote: People are like stained -- glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within
Author: Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Quote: Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Author: Rosalind Russell
Quote: A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Author: Saadi
Quote: When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Author: Lee Salk
Quote: Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers 1893-1957, British Author
Quote: It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Author: Greek Saying
Quote: You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Author: Walt Schmidt
Quote: There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: Every burden is a blessing.
Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Quote: Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Quote: The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Author: Charles M. Schwab 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman
Quote: One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Author: Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher
Quote: Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Author: Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Author: Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.
Author: Martin E. P. Seligman
Quote: Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Things were bad but now they are OK.
Author: Harold J. Seymour
Quote: One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Author: Merle Shain
Quote: Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.
Author: George Sheehan
Quote: For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Author: Sirach
Quote: The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
Author: Sting 1951-, British-born American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Actor
Quote: Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
Author: Swahili Warrior Song
Quote: Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus 55-117 AD, Roman Historian
Quote: We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus 55-117 AD, Roman Historian
Quote: Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Author: Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941, Indian Poet, Philosopher
Quote: Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
Author: The Talmud BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition
Quote: By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man s, I mean.
Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: We need tough days to drive us to our knees.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Author: Sam Walton 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores
Quote: Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
Author: William A. Ward 1921-,
Quote: Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Author: Earl Warren 1891-1974, American Politician, Judge
Quote: Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
Author: Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic
Quote: Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Author: H.G. Wells 1866-1946, British-born American Author
Quote: The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Author: Phil Weltman American Business Executive, William Morris Agency
Quote: A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
Author: Edward Noyes Westcott 1847-1898, American Author
Quote: 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.
Author: Bert Whitney
Quote: It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855-1919, American Poet, Journalist
Quote: Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Author: Oprah Winfrey 1954-, American TV Personality, Producer, Actress, Author
Quote: One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Quote: Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Author: Carl Zwanzig
Quote: Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Author: Aesop
Quote: The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Author: Francis Bacon
Quote: Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Author: Francis Bacon
Quote: Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Author: Harriet Ward Beecher
Quote: To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
Author: Bion
Quote: Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Quote: Adversity is the first path to truth.
Author: Lord Byron
Quote: Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
Author: William Ellery Channing
Quote: A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.
Author: I Ching
Quote: The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
Author: Jean Cocteau
Quote: Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
Author: Epictetus
Quote: To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Author: Epictetus
Quote: The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Author: Epicurus
Quote: In misfortune, what friend remains a friend?
Author: Euripides
Quote: Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Author: Euripides
Quote: A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity.
Author: Frederick Ferre
Quote: Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Quote: Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Author: William Hazlitt
Quote: Greater dooms win greater destinies.
Author: Heraclitus
Quote: When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him.
Author: Hindu Proverb
Quote: Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Author: Horace
Quote: Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Author: Horace
Quote: Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.
Author: Bishop Horne
Quote: Adversity makes men,and prosperity makes monsters.
Author: Victor Hugo
Quote: No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Author: Victor Hugo
Quote: As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity
Author: Jean La Bruyere
Quote: In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Author: Titus Livius
Quote: The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quote: Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Quote: The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
Author: Persian Proverb
Quote: With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
Author: Pliny the Elder
Quote: Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Author: Quran
Quote: To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Author: Jean J. Rousseau
Quote: The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Quote: Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Author: Seneca
Quote: The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Author: Seneca
Quote: We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Author: Seneca
Quote: Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, And good in everything.
Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy
Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
Author: Sophocles
Quote: It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
Author: Sophocles
Quote: Adversity is merely an obstacle, those who are wise simply walk through it.
Author: Eric Strife
Quote: Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Quote: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Author: Harry Truman
Quote: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Author: M. Kathleen Casey
Quote: Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Author: Herbert George Wells
Quote: If you're going through hell, keep going.
Author: Winston Churchill
Quote: We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, Why did this happen to me? unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
Author: Unknown
Quote: A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.
Author: Unknown
Quote: The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Author: Mother Teresa
Quote: If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Author: Robert Fulghum
Quote: The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Author: Harry Golden
Quote: We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.
Author: Uncle Remus
Quote: Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote: If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote: The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Author: Rona Barrett
Quote: Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. A
uthor: Garth Brooks
Quote: Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Author: Garrison Keillor
Quote: Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Author: Erich Fromm
Quote: I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
Author: Jewish proverb
Quote: Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Author: Rose F. Kennedy
Quote: You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Quote: If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
Author: Unknown
Quote: Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Author: Oprah Winfrey
Quote: Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.
Author: Unknown
Quote: How can something bother you if you won't let it?
Author: Anonymous
Quote: If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Author: Frank A. Clark
Quote: As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
Author: Orson Scott Card
Quote: We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Author: Kenji Miyazawa
Quote: Bad is never good until worse happens.
Author: Danish proverb
Quote: It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.
Author: Unknown
Quote: You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Author: Walt Disney
Quote: Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Author: Arthur Golden
Quote: When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
Author: Barbara Bloom
Quote: There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Author: Lou Reed
Quote: We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
Author: Charles C. West
Quote: If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Author: Mary Engelbreit
Quote: The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Author: Theodore Rubin
Quote: Every path has its puddle.
Author: English proverb
Quote: I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Author: Agatha Christie
Quote: When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Author: Colette
Quote: For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Author: Jean Paul Richter
Quote: Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
Author: African proverb
Quote: There is no education like adversity.
Author: Disraeli
Quote: We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
Author: Frank A. Clark
Quote: If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
Author: John A. Simone, Sr.
Quote: He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote: When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Quote: The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.
Author: Unknown
Quote: There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Author: Michel de Montaigne
Quote: Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Author: Unknown
Quote: It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
Quote: That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
Author: James K. Feibleman
Quote: The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Author: John Vance Cheney
Quote: If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Quote: It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Author: John Steinbeck
Quote: Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Author: Edwin Markham
Quote: Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
Author: Teddy Pendergrass
Quote: Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
Author: Bernie S. Siegel
Quote: We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
Author: John Updike
Quote: Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Quote: The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
Author: Unknown
Quote: A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Author: Duke Ellington
Quote: Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Author: O. Henry
Quote: The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Quote: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Author: Robert Frost
Quote: I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Author: André Gide
Quote: Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Author: Unknown
Quote: The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Author: Sophocles
Quote: Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for.
Author: Stanislaus I
Quote: Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
Author: Violeta Parra
Quote: In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote: There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Author: Washington Irving
Quote: A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
Author: Sa'di (Musharrif-uddin)
Quote: There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Author: Bernard M. Baruch
Quote: Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
Author: William McFee
Quote: He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Author: Edmund Burke
Quote: Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Author: André Gide
Quote: If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
Author: Russian proverb
Quote: People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
Author: William McFee
Quote: Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Author: Maltbie D. Babcock
Quote: May you get what you wish for.
Author: Chinese proverb
Quote: Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Quote: Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Author: Billie Holiday
Quote: If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Quote: There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
Author: Unknown
Quote: Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Author: Hugh Miller
Quote: The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
Author: Morris Mandel
Quote: God gave burdens, also shoulders.
Author: Yiddish proverb
Quote: When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
Quote: Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
Author: William Faulkner
Quote: We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Author: Winston Churchill
Quote: Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Author: Jean Anouilh
Quote: Problems are the price you pay for progress.
Author: Branch Rickey
Quote: When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
Author: Leslie Grossman
Quote: Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Author: Bill Gates
Quote: Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Author: Lucy Larcom
Quote: If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Author: Socrates
Quote: There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
Author: Woody Hayes
Quote: It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Author: Cicero
Quote: Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Author: Truman Capote
Quote: No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
Author: Martin Luther
Quote: I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
Author: William Stafford
Quote: I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Author: Dr. Seuss
Quote: To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Quote: Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Quote: Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Author: Winston Churchill
Quote: Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.
Author: Buddy Buie
Quote: If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Author: Latin proverb
Quote: We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quote: Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote: Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
Author: Unknown
Quote: Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Author: Josh Billings
Quote: In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quote: Every rose has its thorn.
Author: Unknown
Quote: You never know what you've got until it's gone.
Author: Unknown
Quote: God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
Author: Aughey
Quote: Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Author: William Shakespeare
Quote: There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Author: Nicolas Chamfort