Adversity Quotes & Sayings
These famous adversity quotes and adversity sayings from our inspirational words of wisdom collection.As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it. - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. - Sir Francis Bacon
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. [La., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem] - Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
He that has never suffered adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For, as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects. - Charles Caleb Colton
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. - King Solomon
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. - Lord Byron
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. - Sir Francis Bacon
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. - C. S. Lewis
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