Adversity Quotes

Seneca, epistles - fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong...
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.
Napolean Hill
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.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
Chilo - be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity...
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
Seneca
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
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
French Prove
Adversity is the first path to truth.
George Gordon Byron
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates
Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity.
Napoleon Hill
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
William Shakespeare
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace, Odes
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
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
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
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
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 growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
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
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Marie Hugo
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.
Churton Collins
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
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
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
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.
English Prove
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
Romanian Prove