Adversity Quotes

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

Socrates

Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity.

Napoleon Hill

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

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

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

William Shakespeare

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.

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

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Publilius Syrus

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

Plutarch

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

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

Ben Jonson

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

John Ray

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Albert Schweitze