Quotes
Quotes about Adversity
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New. -- Of Adversity
It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired." -- Of Adversity.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. -- Of Adversity.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. -- Of Adversity.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. -- Of Adversity
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. -- Ecclesiastes (ch. VII, v. 14)
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem.] -- De Consolatione Philosophioe (bk. II, pt. IV)
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. •Charlotte Bronte A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. •Bernard Meltzer True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington Friends are born, not made. •Henry Adams Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. •Anonymous Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. •Aristotle A friend loveth at all times. •Bible, Proverbs 17:17 Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. •Charles Caleb Colton A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. •Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them •Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one. •Ralph Waldo Emerson Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. •Euripides It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. •F Scott Fitzgerald We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. •François Duc de La Rochefoucauld God gives us our relatives- thank God we can choose our friends. •Ethel Watts Mumford Love demands infinitely less than friendship. •George Jean Nathan Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it-- to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. •Friedrich Nietzsche Hold a true friend with both your hands. •Nigerian Proverb Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. •William Shakespeare The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. •Logan Pearsall Smith A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. •Henry David Thoreau Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. •Bible, John 15:13 The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. •Mark Twain Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. •Voltaire Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. •Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. •Virginia Woolf Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. •Solon Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa. •Lavater Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You, too? I thought I was the only one. •C. S. Lewis If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends let others excel you. •Colton Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet. •John Seldon There's not so much danger in a known foe than in a suspected friend. •Nabb To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. •Syrus True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. •Charles Caleb Colton We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. •Evelyn Waugh Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. •Lavater Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. •Samuel Butler A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. •Ralph Waldo Emerson, If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. •Blaise Pascal I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. •Plutarch There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer. •Francis Bacon Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. •George Macdonald A friend is, as it were, a second self. •Cicero Friendship is Love without his wings! •Byron To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship. •Cicero Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. •Shakespeare That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end. •Quarles He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. •Joubert Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. •Richter Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. •Nathaniel Hawthorne The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. •Buddha Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. •Seneca The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority. •The Hitopadesa Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. •La Fontaine The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. •Moliere One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. •Henry Brook Adams A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. •Lord Samuel While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. •Anonymous Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. •Kehlog Albran The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. •Henry David Thoreau There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. •Buddha The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend. •Abraham Lincoln If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he soon will find himself alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. •Samuel Johnson You should never second-guess the motives of your true friends. You don't even have to analyze their actions because you know, at bottom, that whatever they do or say or think flows in some fundamental way from the fact that they love you. •Star Jones True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. •Theophrastus True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. •George Washington But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. •Thomas Jefferson True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. -- Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. 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 experience which is deem'd so weighty. -- Don Juan (canto XII, st. 50)
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. -- Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture 5)
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity. -- Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [Lat., Haec studia adolecentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium et perfugium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur. -- Oratio Pro Licinio Archia (VII)
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est.] -- De Officiis (I, 26)
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.] -- De Amicitia (VI)
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
Is made more sacred by adversity.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. -- The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 47)
When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems—even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
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.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. -Washington Irving.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. -- Aristotle. xi.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...
Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.] -- Annales (V, 51)
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. -- Annales (V, 51)
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.] -- Epigrams (XI, 56, 15)
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885 In America, it is hard to distinguish Christianity from its social and cultural setting. It blends into the scenery. Many people assume that we live in a "Christian society". Obviously, the Christian church has no strong witness against society. In [a communist country], the situation is exactly the opposite. Christians there live under a political regime which makes a point of distinguishing itself from all religion, and which is grounded philosophically on atheism and materialism. The Church lives in a hostile social order. The result is that the weak Christians are weeded out, and the strong Christians are tremendously strengthened by adversity.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [Fr., Dans l'adversite de nos meilleurs amis nous trouvons toujours quelque chose ne nous deplaist pas.] -- Maxim (99)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Maxim (99)
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing. -- -none
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.] -- Confessions (I, 11)
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. -- De Providentia. 5, 9.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, quam fortes milites bellis.] -- De Providentia (IV)
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.] -- Agamemnon (934)
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. -- Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. -- As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.
A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -- The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from human haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. -- As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. -- As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left. -- The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at I, ii)
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course. -- King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Henry at III, i)
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. -- Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have. -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at IV, i)
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -- The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1.
I'll give thee armor to keep off that word; Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, To comfort thee, though thou art banished. -- Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.
A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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. -- Sermon on the Duties of the Queen
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Maxim 872.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Maxims
It is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous, then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity. -- Phormio. Act ii. Sc. 1, 11. (241.)
If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small. -- Proverbs xxiv. 10.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. -- Ecclesiastes vii. 14.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
