Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Truth is the flower of adversity.
The roughest roads often lead to the top.
A courageous and determined person finds opportunity in every adversity.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.
Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems or keep repeating them over and over.
From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great.
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Remorse begets reform.
When things come to the worse they generally mend.
What we want is never simple.