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

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

Ben Jonson

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

Plutarch

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Socrates

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

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

Napolean Hill

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Henry Fielding

By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.

Anonymous

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Socrates

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

Seneca