Adversity Quotes

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

Ben Jonson

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

Ryszard Kapuscinski

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous

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

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Samuel Johnson

By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.

Anonymous

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Socrates

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

Proverbs 1717 Bible

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

John Ray

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

Tom K. Ryan

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Firmianus Lactantius