Adversity Quotes

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

Romanian Prove

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Ben Jonson

Adversity is the first path to truth.

George Gordon Byron

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.

English Prove

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Horace, Odes

Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.

French Prove

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.

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 grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

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

However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner... sulking and nausea.

Tom K. Ryan