Adversity

(644 votes)   A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(549 votes)   Every path has its puddle.

English proverb

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(506 votes)   It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Sophocles

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(505 votes)   Bad is never good until worse happens.

Danish proverb

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(485 votes)   If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin proverb

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(446 votes)   One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

Sophocles

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(439 votes)   Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(431 votes)   Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Eric Allenbaugh
American Author of ''Wake-Up Calls''

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(420 votes)   Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(412 votes)   Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(406 votes)   Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop
620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

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(397 votes)   Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Aesop

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(388 votes)   No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(387 votes)   Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

Seneca

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(350 votes)   If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.

Russian proverb

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