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I can’t believe that I have never thought to do a page on adversity before.

It’s such a pertinent subject.  You will find that as you read these, they are just as insightful and inspiring as if you had just read quotations on success.

There are 50 adversity quotes here, so grab a drink and get ready.

1. A wounded deer leaps the highest. -Emily Dickinson

2. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. -English Proverb

3. A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. -Saadi

4. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. -John Neal

5. Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it. -Anonymous

6. Dust is protective coating for fine furniture. -Mario Burata

7. By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. -Mark Twain

8. Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to  them? -Rose F. Kennedy

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

10. Adversity is the first path to truth. -Lord Byron

11. Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer. -Sir Walter Scott

12. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity hides it. -Horace

13. Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. -Les Brown

14. Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. -Og Mandino

15. Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. -Henry Ward Beecher

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

17. You have endured worse things; God will grant an end to these. -Virgil

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

19. When walking through the ‘valley of shadows’, remember, a shadow is cast by a light. -H.K Barclay

20. You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. -Maxwell Maltz

21. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. -Friedrich Nietzsche

22. What is to give light must endure the burning. -Viktor Frankl

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

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

25. We need tough days to drive us to our knees. -Anonymous

26. We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. -Henry Ward Beecher

27. We must free ourselves from the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. -Hanmer Parsons Grant

28. Tough times never last, but tough people do. -Robert Schuller

29. Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. -Plutarch

30. Things were bad but now they are OK. -Harold Seymour

31. Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. -Soren Kierkegaard

32. Trouble shared is troubled halved. -Dorothy Sayers

33. There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not crown bearers on earth. -Anonymous

34. There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. -Og Mandino

35. The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. -Richard Nixon

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

37. Stumbling is not falling. -Portuguese Proverb

38. Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. -Zig Ziglar

39. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity. -Lou Holtz

40. The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. -Goethe

41. The difference between the stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them. -Anonymous

42. The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. -Charles Schwab

43. The proof of gold is fire. -Benjamin Franklin

44. The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. -Anonymous

45. The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you. -Will Rogers

46. The reward of suffering is experience. -Aeschylus

47. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -Horace

48. Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together. -Anonymous

49. Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. -Pliny The Elder

50. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. -Gilbert Chesterton

What do you think of these?  Which ones are your favorites?  Please leave a comment in the section below.

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