Adversity Quotes
 
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Adversity (1597).
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Adversity (1597).
If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.
— The Bible, Proverbs, 24:10.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
seneca the younger— Seneca the Younger, De Providentia, 5, 9.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
publilius syrus— Publius Syrus, Sentences, Maxim 872.
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow. But crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Captivity, Act I.
The good are better made by ill, as odours crushed are sweeter still.
samuel rogers— Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline, Stanza 3.
In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.
— Horatius Bonar, p. 7.
How full of briers is this working-day world!
— William Shakespeare, p. 7.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
— The Bible, Ecclesiastes, 7:14.
If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.
— The Bible, Proverbs, 24:10.
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— Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, The Hero as Man of Letters (1840).
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
publilius syrus— Publius Syrus, Sentences, Maxim 872.
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
— Acts, IX. 5. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.
sydney smith— Sydney Smith, Sermon on the Duties of the Queen (1837).
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
washington irving
And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
friedrich nietzsche
Adjust, change course, go in a new direction, make a shift, turn around - just don't stop. Keep working on your goals.
Steve Harvey
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius— Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience.
— Bishop Horne, p. 7. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
