| Author |
Quotes |
| Norma H Hill | Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. |
| Sai Baba | diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet. |
| Samuel Rogers | The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. |
| Seneca | We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. |
| Seneca | The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. |
| Sir Winston Churchill | Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. |
| Socrates | If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own. |
| Sydney Smith | A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure. |
| Thomas Carlyle | Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. |
| Thomas Gray | Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! |
| Titus Livy | Adversity reminds men of religion. |
| Titus Livy | We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. |
| Victor Hugo | Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. |
| Washington Irving | Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. |
| William Hazlitt | Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity a greater. |
| William Hazlitt | Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind, privation trains and strengthens it. |
| William Shakespeare | Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course. |
| William Shakespeare | His overthrow heaped happiness upon him, For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little. |
| William Shakespeare | Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. |
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