Adversity Quotes

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Horace

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

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.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Leighton

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

Henry Fielding

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Marie Hugo

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

Romanian Prove

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

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

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous

Adversity cause some men to break others to break records.

William A. Ward

Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity.

Napoleon Hill