A man must either fall or rise in adversity.
Edmund Cooper
Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh
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
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
Robert Burton
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
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great.
Rose F. Kennedy
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
FRANCIS BACON