Adversity Quotes

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 men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Marie Hugo

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

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.

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

Plutarch

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.

Sir 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 makes a man wise, not rich.

Romanian Prove

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

English Prove

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Napolean Hill

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

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

Charles Caleb Colton