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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity
is not without comforts and hopes.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Of Adversity
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. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Author: Bible
Source: Acts (ch. IX, v. 5)
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity
consider.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. VII, v. 14)
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And these vicissitudes come best in youth;
For when they happen at a riper age,
People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,
And wonder Providence is not more sage.
Adversity is the first path to truth:
He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,
Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,
Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XII, st. 50)
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can
stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture 5)
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Aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crush'd or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Captivity (act I)
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Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour
The bad affright, afflict the best!
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Hymn to Adversity (st. 1)
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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something
which does not displease us.
[Fr., Dans l'adversite de nos meilleurs amis nous trouvons
toujours quelque chose ne nous deplaist pas.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxim (99)
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a
man's character, give him power.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxim (99)
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Adversity reminds men of religion.
[Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (V, 51)
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (V, 51)
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The Good are better made by Ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
Author: Samuel Rogers
Source: Jacqueline (st. 3)
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Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in
war.
[Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, quam fortes
milites bellis.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: De Providentia (IV)
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to
his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy
of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
[Lat., Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi
suo Deus. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna
compositus.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Lib. de Divina Providentia
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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 human haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
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Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.
But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain:
So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,
With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me;
But if thou live to see like right bereft,
This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at I, ii)
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity,
For wise men say it is the wisest course.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Henry at III, i)
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His overthrow heaped happiness upon him;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And found the blessedness of being little.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Griffith at IV, ii)
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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
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Then know, that I have little wealth to lose.
A man I am, crossed with adversity;
My riches are these poor habiliments,
Of which if you should here disfurnish me,
You take the sum and substance that I have.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at IV, i)
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A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen
writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with
pleasure.
Author: Sydney Smith
Source: Sermon on the Duties of the Queen
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In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent to ease us,
Points out some circumstance to please us.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: On the Death of Dr. Swift, a paraphrase of Rochefoucauld's "Maxim"
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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ...
Author: Nicholas Ling
Source: None
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Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
Source: None
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Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ...
Author: John Ray
Source: None
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In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
Author: Churton Collins
Source: None
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Author: Horace
Source: None
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: None
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
Author: Lord Byron
Source: None
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
Author: Bernie Siegel, MD
Source: None
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.
Author: Norma H. Hill
Source: None
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.
Author: Socrates
Source: None
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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Author: George Washington
Source: None
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diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet.
Author: Sai Baba
Source: None
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: None
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When a heart breaks
it also opens
-Jeff Arch- screenwriter.
Author: Jeff Arch
Source: None
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Is made more sacred by adversity.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Author: Victor Hugo
Source: None
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Author: Washington Irving
Source: None
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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