Adversity Quotes
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.Plutarch
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.Ryszard Kapuscinski
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.Victor Marie Hugo
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
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 prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.James Burgh
By courage I repel adversity.Anonymous
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner... sulking and nausea.Tom K. Ryan
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
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
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.Proverbs 1717 Bible
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
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.Socrates
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.Plutarch
Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.William A. Ward
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.Publilius Syrus
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 has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.Samuel Johnson
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.Albert Schweitze
Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity.Napoleon Hill
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.Leighton
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
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
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.Henry Fielding
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.William Hazlitt
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 is the first path to truth.George Gordon Byron
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
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.John Churton Collins
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.French Prove
