Chinese Proverbs Adversity Quotes

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.

- Chinese Proverbs

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.

- Chinese Proverbs

Sincere advice may offend the ear but is beneficial to one's conduct.

- Chinese Proverbs

Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears.

- Chinese Proverbs

Keeping company with the wicked is like living in a fish market: one becomes used to the foul odor.

- Chinese Proverbs

Courtesy is the mark of a civilized person

- Chinese Proverbs

Follow the good and learn their ways.

- Chinese Proverbs

Kindness is the best quality of the soul

- Chinese Proverbs

Each person equals a grain of sand, but an army is like a block of gold.

- Chinese Proverbs

We cannot clap with only one hand

- Chinese Proverbs

A bridge is not built from one piece of wood.

- Chinese Proverbs

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Anonymous

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

- Herbert George Wells

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

- Publilius Syrus

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

- Harry Truman

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made

- Sophocles

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

- Bion

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

- Sophocles

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Bible

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare