Adversity Quotes & Sayings

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~ Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ~

~ A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. ~

JULIUS CHARLES HARE

~ 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

~ Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ~

Publilius Syrus

~ Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty ~

Lord Byron

~ There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth ~

Lord Byron

~ Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~

Unknown

~ OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. ~

Ambrose Bierce

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