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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.
William Shakespeare
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
George Meredith
By becoming more unhappy we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Madame Swetchine
Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
Edward Howard Griggs
It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
William Makepeace Thackeray
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
John Dewey
Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
Anonymous
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
James A. Froude
Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
George Bernard Shaw
I have always grown from my problems and challenges from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett
Those things that hurt instruct.
Benjamin Franklin
Pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil
Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems or keep repeating them over and over.
Marie Osmond
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
Baltasar Gracián
Prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.
Queen Elizabeth I
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg
Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.
Horace
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon
In the day of prosperity be joyful but in the day of adversity consider.
Bible
In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Sallust
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
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott
Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.
Ellis Peters
I have brightness in my soul which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!
Jenny Lind
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
Catharine Marshall
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.
Anonymous
He who serves God with what costs him nothing will do very little service you may depend on it.
Susan Warner
Who hath not known ill fortune never knew himself or his own virtue.
David Mallett
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline the sensations but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly to try to understand things.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Difficulties are things that show what men are.
Epictetus
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.
Jean de La Fontaine
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
Frederick W. Robertson
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm.
Cicely Tyson
A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.
Nancy Reagan
Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.
Anonymous
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.
Herbert Gasser
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
Christy Mathewson
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
English Proverb
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Margot Asquith
I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.
Bob Hope
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Edith Sitwell
When I was very young I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too that I didn't show more promise at it or I might have been an automobile dealer.
King Vidor
Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.
Lea Thompson
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