| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. |
| Anonymous | No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. |
| Bernie Siegel MD | If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. |
| Bible | it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. |
| Bible | In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. |
| Anonymous | No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | Is made more sacred by adversity. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. |
| Churton Collins | In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. |
| Francis Bacon | Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. |
| Francis Bacon | Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. |
| Francis Bacon | Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. |
| George Washington | Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. |
| Horace | Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. |
| Jeff Arch | When a heart breaks it also opens -Jeff Arch- screenwriter. |
| John Ray | Adversity makes a man wise, not rich |
| Jonathan Swift | In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us. |
| Lord Byron | Adversity is the first path to truth. |
| Mark Twain | By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean. |
| Nicholas Ling | Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ... |
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