Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln
Much of your pain is self chosen. -Khalil Gibran
One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. -Aristotle
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life. -Walter Annenberg
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. -Lee Iacocca
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. -Helen Keller
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity. -Norm MacDonald
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. -Theodore Roethke
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. -Mario Fernandez
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. -Napoleon Hill
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. -Henry Ward Beecher
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. -Seneca the Younger
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. -Henry A. Kissinger
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. -Charles Caleb Colton
It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. -Ashleigh Brilliant
You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope. -Og Mandino
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