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Quotations by Subject: Adversity
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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 (1809 - 1865)
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.: Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
By courage I repel adversity. (Adversa Virtute Repello): Anonymous
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.: Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.: Chilo
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.: French Proverb
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.: John Churton Collins
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.: William Arthur Ward
A man I am cross'd with adversity.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, sc.1
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part III, Act III, 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 everything.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc.1
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)


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