Adversity Quotes

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

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

Socrates

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

John Churton Collins

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

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.

Napolean Hill

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

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

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

Henry Fielding

We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Churton Collins

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

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

English Prove

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.

Anonymous

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

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

Samuel Johnson

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Marie Hugo

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous

Adversity is the first path to truth.

George Gordon Byron

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

Proverbs 1717 Bible

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Horace, Odes

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

Tom K. Ryan

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.

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

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Plutarch

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

Seneca, Epistles

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.

French Prove

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

James Burgh

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

Firmianus Lactantius

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 makes a man wise, not rich.

Romanian 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

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Chilo

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

Chinese Prove