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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
- Elvis Presley


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.
- Robert Fulghum


The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
- Seneca


The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- Harry Golden


In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
- Horace


A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.
- Unknown


Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- M. Kathleen Casey


Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
- Horace


The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- Harry Golden


It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
- Horace


Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
- Garth Brooks


I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.
- Jewish Proverb


Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.
- Francis Bacon


We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
- Unknown


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.
- Rona Barrett


Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
- Romanian Proverb


You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
- Henry Ward Beecher


Sweet are the uses of adversity to the party it doesn't happen to.
- Unknown


You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.
- Uncle Remus


Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
- Aristotle


Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey


Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Unknown


Bad is never good until worse happens.
- Danish Proverb


Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
- Seneca


If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
- Frank A. Clark


A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.
- Muslih-uddin Sadi


A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.
- Lee Drake


By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity another man's, I mean.
- Mark Twain


As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.
- Orson Scott Card


We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
- Charles C. West


Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
- Publilius Syrus


I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call uffering.
- Colette


Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.
- Unknown


The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney


If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
- Bernie Siegel


Adversity is the first path to truth.
- Lord Byron


I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
- Robert Frost


Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.
- Welsh Proverb


Adversity enhances this tale we call life.
- Ever Garrison


Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
- Seneca


The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
- Bernard M. Baruch


Adversity collapses around a true adherent soul.
- Jareb Teague


Adversity makes men remember God.
- Titus Livy


In prosperity, our friends know us - in adversity, we know our friends
- John Churton Collins


You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
- Walt Schmidt


Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
- Billie Holiday


The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.
- Morris Mandel


We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill


In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde


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