Adversity Quotes

• Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.

• By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.

• He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

• Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

• Sweet are the uses of adversity,
  Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
  And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
  Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
  Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

• Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

• A man I am cross'd with adversity.

• You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

• Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

• Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

• He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

• In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

• Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

• Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

• A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
  We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
  But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
  As much or more we should ourselves complain.

• By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

• Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

• Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

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