Adversity Quotes

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Chinese Prove

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

John Ray

By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.

Anonymous

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

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

James Burgh

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

English Prove

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Henry Fielding

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

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 1717 Bible

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

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Plutarch

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca, Epistles