Adversity Quotes & Sayings

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~ If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn ~

Bernie Siegel

~ Adversity precedes growth. ~

Rosemarie Rossetti

~ Sweet are the uses of adversity. ~

William Shakespeare

~ Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter ~

Unknown

~ Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war ~

Seneca

~ Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. ~

Francis Bacon, Sr.

~ In adversity remember to keep an even mind. ~

Horace

~ Adversity is the foundation of virtue ~

Japanese Proverb

~ Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ~

Francis Bacon, Sr.

~ Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ~

Victor Hugo

~ Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ~

Horace

~ Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. ~

Robert James Waller

~ Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. ~

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Plutarch

~ Adversity and loss make a man wise ~

Welsh Proverb

~ We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ~

Seneca

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

Charles Caleb Colton

~ Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. ~

Josh Billings

~ Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ~

John Wooden

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

Cesare Pavese

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

Martha Graham

~ Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. ~

Elizabeth Hardwick

~ Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great ~

Rose F. Kennedy

~ A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity ~

Muslih-uddin Sadi

~ He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later ~

Henry Fielding

~ Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts. ~

Horace

~ Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime ~

Samuel Butler

~ 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

~ There is no education like adversity. ~

Disraeli

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