Consider creative perspectives on adversity...
- "We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity."
--Aesop's Fables - "Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
--Aristotle - "Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
--Francis Bacon - "Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight."
--Josh Billings - "You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load."
--Bear Bryant - "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
--Walt Disney - "There is no education like adversity."
--Benjamin Disraeli - "Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not."
--Henry Fielding - "In times of stress and adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something quite positive."
--Lee Iacocca - "There is in every woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fires, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
--Washington Irving - "Adversity is the foundation of virtue."
--Japanese Proverb - "Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship, just as the cold winter forms ice-figures on the window panes which the warmth of the sun effaces."
--Søren Kierkegaard - "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln - "Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come."
--James Russell Lowell - "Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety."
--Jack Nicklaus - "I never met with a single instance of adversity which I have not in the end seen was for my good-- I have never heard of a Christian on his deathbed complaining of his afflictions."
--Alexander M. Proudfit - "We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths."
--Pat Riley - "One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.~ Albert Schweitzer
- "Gold is tried in fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."
--Seneca - "Sweet are the uses of adversity.""
--William Shakespeare - "Case in point: Take adversity and make it an asset."
--Donald Trump - "Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records."~ William A. Ward
- "One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph."
--Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary, 1954 - "Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."
--Zig Ziglar
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"The block of granite which was an obstacle on the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong."
The Art of Learning:
A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence by Josh Waitzkin