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.

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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.
    ― Robert Leighton
     
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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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