Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
Abu Bakr

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
Ben Jonson

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare Pavese

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
William Samuel Johnson

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
Henry Fielding

He who does not tire, tires adversity.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.
Brett Favre

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.
Allen Klein

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
John Hawley

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.
Steve Nash

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.
Richard Marx

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.
Shelby Foote

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

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.
Paula Cole

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace

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

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins