Adversity Quotes & Sayings

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

Socrates

~ My character was formed by mountaineering. Enduring rainy slopes and cold bivouacs to spend an hour at the top of the world shaped my ability to handle adversity. ~

Candice Carpenter

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

Bernie Siegel

~ Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. ~

Henry Home

~ By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. ~

Samuel Daniel

~ Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity. ~

Seneca

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

Horace

~ Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of. ~

Spurgeon

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

Goethe

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

King Solomon

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

Rosalind Russell

~ The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ~

Alan Gregg

~ In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one. ~

James Burgh

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

Plutarch

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

John Churton Collins

~ A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. ~

Jack Hyles

~ It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins. ~

NORMAN MACDONALD

~ Prosperity gathers smiles, while adversity scatters them. ~

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

~ Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ~

FRANCIS BACON

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

Aristotle

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

William Hazlitt

~ Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ~

Billy Graham

~ Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great. ~

Rose F. Kennedy

~ Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. ~

Periander

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

Francis Bacon, Sr.

~ Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ~

Francis Bacon, Sr.

~ 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

~ 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

~ 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

~ All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~

Walt Disney

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