Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African proverbs
I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.
Andrew Jackson
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
Anton Chekhov
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
To be between the hammer and the anvil.
French proverbs
To every one his own cross seems heaviest.
Italian proverbs
It is always the worst wheel that creaks.
Many are brave when the enemy flees.
Experience is not what happens to you. Experience is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
If there is no wind, row.
Latin Proverbs
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney
When misfortune sleeps let no one wake her.
Spanish proverbs
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Roger Babson
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
G.K. Chesterton
In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
