Adversity Quotes

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

United, Flame, Mutual

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Bitter, Prosperity, Remorse

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship, Made, Holy

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton

Success, Picture, Side

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare Pavese

Strength, Knows, Hath

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Rose Kennedy

Great, Prosperity, Fortunate

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham

Men, Strong, Fire

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius

Happy, Worst, Misery

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Experience, Democracy

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
Shia LaBeouf

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Golda Meir

Find, Partner, Sparring

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.
Steven Seagal

Calm, Face, Danger

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins

Friends, Prosperity

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.
James Keller

Long, Keep, Three

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.
Steve Nash

Through, Pretty, Gone

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
King Solomon

Consider, Prosperity, Joyful

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus

Friends, Makes, Prosperity

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
Wilma Mankiller

Forward, Moving, Down

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
Henry Fielding

Mind, Soul, Cannot

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
Abu Bakr

Good, Against, Actions

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.
Elizabeth Hardwick

Great, Teacher, Often

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus

Great, Happy, Miserable

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
Brad Henry

Strength, Compassion, Means

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

Life, Everything, Able

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.
Brett Favre

Good, Sometimes, Consider

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.
Brett Favre

Last, She, Year

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

Strength, Knows, Met

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel

Greatest, Fair, Misery

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

Happy, Against, Wealth

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
Allen Klein

Laugh, Defeat, Deal

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