Adversity Quotes
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity
Charles Caleb Colton
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Seneca
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
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
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us
Samuel Johnson
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war
Seneca
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Unknown
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron
