“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.”
“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
“Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.”
“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”
“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”
“Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.”
“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man s, I mean.”
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”
“Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine”
“For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.”
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
“A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.”
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.”
“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.”
“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”
“One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.”
“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”
“Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.”
“Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.”
“Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.”
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”
“Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.”
“When walking through the ''valley of shadows,'' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.”