Adversity

(75 votes)   You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Henry Ward Beecher

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(74 votes)   Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale
1822-1909, American Unitarian Clergyman, Writer

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(73 votes)   It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

Ashleigh Brilliant

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(73 votes)   Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

James Russell Lowell

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(72 votes)   Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

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(72 votes)   Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

Teddy Pendergrass

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(71 votes)   Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

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(71 votes)   Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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(71 votes)   The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(69 votes)   Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Herbert George Wells

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(69 votes)   We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Hanmer Parsons Grant

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(68 votes)   A stumble may prevent a fall.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(68 votes)   Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(67 votes)   Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Soren Kierkegaard
1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer

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(67 votes)   Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Jean Jacques Rousseau
1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist

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