Adversity

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ADVERSITY: Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

ADVERSITY: Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. (Unknown Source)

ADVERSITY: Sweet are the uses of adversity. (Unknown Source)

ADVERSITY: You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. (Maya Angelou, U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

ADVERSITY: Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain. (Unknown source)

ADVERSITY: Sweet are the uses of adversity. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

ADVERSITY: When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford, U.S. founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

ADVERSITY: In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960)

ADVERSITY: Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. (Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology for his work in organ transplantation, 1873-1944)

ADVERSITY: When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. (Charles A. Beard, U.S. historian, 1874-1948)

ADVERSITY: The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)

ADVERSITY: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. (Frank Leahy, U.S. football coach and professional sports executive who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach, 1908-1973)

ADVERSITY: All sorts of spiritual gifts come through deprivations, if they are accepted. (Janice Erskine Stuart, English Roman Catholic nun and educator, 1857-1914)

ADVERSITY: Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

ADVERSITY: The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going. (Molly Haskell, U.S. feminist film critic and author, Born 1939)

ADVERSITY: Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers than. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

ADVERSITY: Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

ADVERSITY: Pain is the root of knowledge. (Simone Weil, French philosopher and political activist for the working class, 1909=1943)

ADVERSITY: The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. (Sophocles, one of three ancient Greek tragedians - along with Aeschylus and Euripides - whose plays have survived, 496-406 BCE)

ADVERSITY: The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

ADVERSITY: Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. (Unknown source)

ADVERSITY: Adversity introduces a man to himself. (Unknown source)

ADVERSITY: I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

ADVERSITY: No gains without pains. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

ADVERSITY: The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. (Woodrow Wilson, U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)