181 Quotations with Adversity.
- 1. Anne Bradstreet: If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometime ...
- 2. Cicero: Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sh ...
- 3. John Churton Collins: In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
- 4. George Washington: Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried befo ...
- 5. Chilo: Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
- 6. Socrates: Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue el ...
- 7. Victor Marie Hugo: Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- 8. Henry Fielding: He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatnes ...
- 9. Leighton: Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
- 10. Plutarch: Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
- 11. Author Unknown: A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity ...
- 12. C. C. Colton: The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, wo ...
- 13. Firmianus Lactantius: Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old ...
- 14. Seneca: To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, comp ...
- 15. James Burgh: In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
- 16. Plutarch: Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily manage ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: BACK, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in y ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong ...
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including wh ...
- 20. Tom K. Ryan: However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner ... ...
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