In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins

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

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
James Buckham

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare, Othello

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Seneca

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Jean De La Bruyere

Beware of the friend who was once your foe.

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

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Susan Taylor

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle

You can’t run away from trouble.There ain’t no place that far.
Uncle Remus

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Rona Barrett

Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron

Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Norman Vincent Peale

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

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

The course of true anything never does run smooth.
Samuel Butler

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
Bernie Siegel

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

Adversity precedes growth.
Rosemarie Rossetti

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit

Sweet are the uses of adversity.
William Shakespeare

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey

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

Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.
Myla Kabat-Zinn

Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.
Horace

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us
Samuel Johnson

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Francis Bacon, Sr.

In prosperity we need moderation; in adversity, patience.

Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse.
From the movie The African Queen

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

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

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.

Determination, patience and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
Jonas Salk

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher

Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.
Myla Kabat-Zinn

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

Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Og Mandino