Adversity Quotes
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.Leighton
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.English Prove
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.C. C. Colton
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.Ben Jonson
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.Publilius Syrus
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.Chilo
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.Seneca
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.Ryszard Kapuscinski
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.Seneca, Epistles
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.Anonymous
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.Plutarch
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
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.Anne Bradstreet
By courage I repel adversity.Anonymous
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.Horace, Odes
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.William Shakespeare
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.Proverbs 1717 Bible
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.Plutarch
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.William Hazlitt
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.Thomas Carlyle
Adversity is the first path to truth.George Gordon Byron
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.William Shakespeare
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.John Churton Collins
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.William Hazlitt
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.Francis Bacon
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.Samuel Johnson
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.Socrates
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
