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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

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles

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

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty

English Proverb

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

Adversity and loss make a man wise

Welsh Proverb

Adversity makes men remember God

Titus Livy

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity

Periander

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.

Edmund Burke

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Sir Walter Scott

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

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

Billy Graham

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

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity

Seneca

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

Francis Bacon, Sr.

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Proverb

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich

Romanian Proverb

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

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