ADVERSITY

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
English Proverbs

Every path has its puddle.
English proverb

Bad is never good until worse happens.
Danish proverb

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.
Sophocles

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin proverb

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
Sophocles

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

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.
Eric Allenbaugh

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

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Seneca

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Aesop

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
Russian proverb

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Seneca

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
William A. Ward

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.
Cavett Robert

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African proverb

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul Richter

Every silver lining has a cloud.
Avon

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
Heartland Advisor

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Barbara De Angelis

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Victor Hugo

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

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
Thomas p Kempis

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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
Aughey

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Rosalind Russell

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Doug Horton

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.
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige

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.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith

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.
Thomas p Kempis

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

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

The reward of suffering is experience.
Aeschylus

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!
Dr. Seuss

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Seneca

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.
John A. Simone, Sr.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung

Stumbling is not falling.
Portuguese Proverbs

The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
Persian Proverb

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.
Unknown

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.
Epictetus

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
Unknown

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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg