Adversity Quotes

Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
Scott Hamilton

Give, Value, Priceless

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Become, Prosperity, Wiser

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mind, Powerful, Brave

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great, Against, Struggling

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Og Mandino

Triumph, Seek, Seed

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Billy Graham

Comfort, Prosperity, Enriched

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good, Prosperity, Belong

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace

Effect, Talents, Prosperous

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace

Change, Good, Heart

There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch

Friends, Balance, Prosperity

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.
Washington Irving

Heart, Woman, Fire

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson

State, Himself, Acquainted

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz

Someone, Done, Show

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Horace

Life, Courage, Live

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis Presley

Hard, Sometimes, Stand

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch

Nothing, Prosperity, Harder

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon

Prosperity, Hopes, Fears

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon

Old, Blessing, Prosperity

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Robert Collier

Time, Win, Victory

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson

State, Properly, Beneficial

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Horace

Genius, Prosperity, Conceals

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace

Mind, Remember, Keep

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.
Kin Hubbard

Able, Stand, Seem

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings

Him, Same, Training

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
King Solomon

Friend, Brother, Times

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt

Great, Teacher, Greater

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana

Men, Fire, Tried

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
Brad Henry

Strength, Compassion, Means

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