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
