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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
Proverb

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

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity ’til he has tasted adversity.
Sa’Di

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
Arthur Golden

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

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.
John Lithgow

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

Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill

A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.
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If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
King Solomon

They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
Dorothy Parker

Depression loses its power when fresh vision pierces the darkness.
Peter Sinclair

A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted; the ocean is not made muddy
by the falling in of its banks.
Panchatantra

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.
Anonymous

Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.
Jeffrey Gitomer

Every path hath a puddle.
George Herbert

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.
Lee Salk

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace

The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
Nelson Mandela