Adversity Sayings & Quotes
These adversity sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it. - Horace
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
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grief's and anxieties. [La., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores] - Cicero
Israel was not created in order to disappear, Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honours the sword of freedom. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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.] - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us; when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavour by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. - Washington Irving
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. - Ulysses Simpson Grant
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