78 quotes
“The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud.”
— Unknown
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man character, give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
— Seneca
“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
“All the adversity I have had all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me”
— Walt Disney
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
— Seneca the Younger
“In times of adversity and change we really discover who we are and what we are made of”
— Howard Schultz
“The lotus grows in muddy water, yet rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty.”
“In all adversity of fortune, the most unhappy sort of misfortune is to have been happy.”
— Boethius
“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”
“Adversity makes humans stronger.”
“Every adversity every failure every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit”
— Napoleon Hill
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
— Horace
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
— Rumi
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”
— James Russell Lowell
“In a calm sea every man is a pilot.”
— John Ray
“There is a saying in Tibetan that adversity is a good teacher and faith is what makes us good students”
— Dalai Lama
“Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it”
“Calamity is the test of integrity.”
— Samuel Richardson
— Albert Einstein
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
“There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, 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
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
— Bob Marley
“What does not kill us makes us stronger.”
— Confucius
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
— Plutarch
“Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
— Cicero
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
— Catherine the Great
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.”
— Helen Keller
“That which does not kill us in family makes us stronger together.”
“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
— Og Mandino
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever get polished?”
“The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”
— George Washington
“In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends”
— John Churton Collins
“And once the storm is over, you will not remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you will not be the same person who walked in.”
— Haruki Murakami
“No mud, no lotus.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Through faith a person is made whole and finds peace not in the absence of trouble, but in the midst of it.”
— Meister Eckhart
“Every adversity every failure every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
“The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.”
“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
— Martha Graham
“Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?”
— Walt Whitman
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger”
“Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it”
— Thomas More
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
— Willa Cather
“What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.”
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