Adversity Quotes

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Marie Hugo

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

Churton Collins

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bradstreet

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

Henry Fielding

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Seneca, Epistles

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

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

Seneca

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

English Prove

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Plutarch

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

Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity.

Napoleon Hill

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous