If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Source: Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Divine and Moral (1664).

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

The road to athletic greatness is not marked by perfection, but the ability to constantly overcome adversity and failure.

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The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Source: Mulan (1998 Movie) by Walt Disney Company.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Source: William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act III, scene 1, line 24.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Source: William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act III, scene 1, line 24.