Adversity Quotes
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
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.Socrates
Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.William A. Ward
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.Ben Jonson
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.John 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.Sir Francis Bacon
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.Socrates
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.Charles Caleb Colton
By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.Anonymous
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.Albert Schweitze
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.William Hazlitt
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.John Ray
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.Publilius Syrus
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.James Burgh
We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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 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 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
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
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.William Hazlitt
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.Firmianus Lactantius
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
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.Leighton
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.French Prove
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner... sulking and nausea.Tom K. Ryan
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.Chilo
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.Napolean Hill
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 first path to truth.George Gordon Byron
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.Horace, Odes
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.William Shakespeare
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.Plutarch
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 makes a man wise, not rich.Romanian Prove
