adversity quotes

The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.5,'Of  Adversity'.

Prosperity istheblessingofthe Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.5,'Of  Adversity'.

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

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.5,'Of  Adversity'.

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

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.5,'Of  Adversity'.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs17:17.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 24:10.

Adversity stretcheth our days.

- SirThomas Browne
  Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

-Thomas Carlyle
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Man of Letters'.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itselfalways changing, infinite in its variety, sometimesturbulent and allthemorevaluableforhaving been tested by adversity.

-Jimmy (James Earl) Carter
  Address to the Parliament of India, 2  Jun.