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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. --Horace

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. --Samuel Butler

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. --Albert Einstein

I'll say this for adversity--people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more'n I kin say fer prosperity. --Kim Hubbard

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. --Henry Kaiser

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. --William Hazlitt

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. --Thomas Paine

The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship. --Chinese Proverb

Without a struggle, there can be no progress. --Frederick Douglass