Quotes about adversity

"A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity."

Saadi on adversity   

"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."

Salk, Lee on adversity
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"Trouble shared is trouble halved."

Sayers, Dorothy L. on adversity
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"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."

Saying, Greek on adversity
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"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."

Schmidt, Walt on adversity   

"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on adversity
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"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

Schuller, Robert H. on adversity
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"Every burden is a blessing."

Schuller, Robert H. on adversity   

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

Schwab, Charles M. on adversity   

"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."

Schweitzer, Albert on adversity
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"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."

Scott, Sir Walter on adversity
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"Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer."

Scott, Sir Walter on adversity   

"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."

Seligman, Martin E. P. on adversity   

"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."

Seneca on adversity   

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

Seneca on adversity
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"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

Seneca on adversity
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"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

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

Seneca on adversity
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"Things were bad but now they are OK."

Seymour, Harold J. on adversity   

"One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment."

Shain, Merle on adversity
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"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."

Shakespeare, William on adversity
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

Shakespeare, William on adversity
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"If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk."

Sheehan, George on adversity
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"For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."

Sirach on adversity   

"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."

Smiles, Samuel on adversity
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"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."

Sting on adversity   

"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 on adversity
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"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on adversity   

"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on adversity   

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow."

Talmud, The on adversity
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"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."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth"

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them"

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"

Unknown, Source on adversity
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