Adversity Quotes & Sayings

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~ Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~

~ Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them ~

~ True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort ~

Walter Anderson

~ Nearly all men can stand adversity. But if you want to test a man's character - give him power. ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~

Abraham Lincoln

~ Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~

Aristotle

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

Horace

~ Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. ~

Ovid

~ In prosperity we need moderation; in adversity, patience ~

Lee Iacocca

~ In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ~

Lee Iacocca

~ Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ~

Elvis Presley

~ In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ~

King Solomon

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

Samuel Johnson

~ Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial. ~

Joseph Hall

~ Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. ~

Chanakya

~ A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine. ~

Proverb

~ A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine. ~

Proverb

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

Ben Jonson 1573

~ A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~

Washington Irving

~ It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. ~

Cicero

~ Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~

Aristotle

~ In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ~

Lee Iacocca

~ 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. ~

Jimmy Carter

~ In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends ~

John Churton Collins

~ Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~

Arthur Golden

~ Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it. ~

Unknown

~ There is no education like adversity ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ Adversity is the first path to truth. ~

Lord Byron

~ Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~

Unknown

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