Adversity Quotes

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

However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner... sulking and nausea.

Tom K. Ryan

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

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, Epistles

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

Romanian Prove

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

Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B. C.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Marie Hugo

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

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

George Washington

By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.

Anonymous

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

William Shakespeare