Ralph Waldo Emerson Adversity Quotations

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

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.

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

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.