Adversity Quotes & Sayings

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~ Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. ~

William Hazlitt

~ You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ~

Walt Schmidt

~ Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him. ~

Proverb

~ Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them ~

Ethiopian Proverb

~ Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them ~

Ethiopian Proverb

~ It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. ~

Horace

~ Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue ~

Friedrich von Schiller

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

Horace

~ 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

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

Albert Schweitzer

~ Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. ~

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

~ In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing ~

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

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

Thomas Carlyle

~ 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 ~

James Earl

~ In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time ~

Robert Collier

~ Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater ~

Hazlitt

~ Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenges and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what does not work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity. ~

Jerry Porras

~ Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. ~

Chiang Kai-Shek

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

Josh Billings

~ As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity. ~

Simon Newcomb

~ No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted ~

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Simon Newcomb

~ 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

~ 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

~ 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 heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ~

Horace

~ Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood. ~

Billy Graham

~ The English nation is never so great as in adversity. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

Billy Graham

~ Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.] ~

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

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