Adversity Quotes
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.
Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity.Napoleon Hill
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
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
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
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.Plutarch
We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.Churton Collins
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.John Ray
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 is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.Thomas Carlyle
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.Socrates
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner... sulking and nausea.Tom K. Ryan
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.French Prove
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.Chilo
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.William Hazlitt
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.English Prove
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.Ryszard Kapuscinski
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
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.Seneca
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.Henry Fielding
Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.William A. Ward
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
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.Socrates
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.Henry Fielding
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.William Hazlitt
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.Samuel Johnson
Adversity is the first path to truth.George Gordon Byron
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.Ben Jonson
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.Leighton
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.Horace, Odes
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.Albert Schweitze
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.Sir Francis Bacon
