Adversity Quotes

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

There is in every 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.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

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.

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

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.