All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Adversity”

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
“He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.”
“They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.”
“Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.”
“Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.”
“Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.”
“One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.”
“Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.”

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