Quotes with adversity

  • There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
  • In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
  • This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

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  • Aristotle Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Horace Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Horace A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Josh Billings Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • 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 Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert Leighton Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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  • George Washington Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Anthony de Mello Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Francis Bacon Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Saadi A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Anne Bradstreet A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • William Arthur Ward Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Adversity is a good school.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Arthur Golden Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Adversity is the first path to truth.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Johnson Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Victor Hugo Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Horace Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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