“The prosperity turns more heads that adversity; it warns you that adversity and prosperity makes one forget. ”
De Montesquieu Montesquieu / Notebooks
“It is in adversity that prove true friends.”
From Cicero Cicero
“The troubles and adversity bring to religion.”
From Francis Bacon Francis Bacon
“Prosperity reveals our vices and adversity our virtues.”
From Francis Bacon Francis Bacon
“Adversity makes men all the virtues that prosperity takes away.”
From Eugène Delacroix Eugène Delacroix
“Adversity brings caution in the heart of man.”
From Pindar Pindar
“To have the favorable gods in adversity, we must invoke prosperity. ”
From Xenophon Xenophon
“Prosperity discovers vices and adversity our virtues.”
From Francis Bacon Francis Bacon
“Against adversity proves strong man. ”
Maurice Maurice De Sceve Sceve / Microcosm
“Patience is to engulf adversity without even a frown.”
From Anonymous Anonymous
“Tears are better than laughter, because adversity improves the heart.”
“The vile soul is swollen with pride in prosperity and dejected in adversity.”
From Epicurus Epicurus
Testimonials (13):
“Good sources are known in the drought and good friends in adversity.”
From Chinese proverb Chinese Proverb
“Prosperity shows the happy, adversity shows the great.”
From Pliny the Younger Pliny the Younger / Trajan Panegyric
“Adversity always contains leaven of a new opportunity.”
From W. Clement Stone W. Clement Stone / Success through constructive thinking
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. – Stanislaus I
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. – Jewish Proverb
I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them. – Boris Pasternak
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. – Jonas Salk
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. – Agatha Christie
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. – André Gide
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures. – Author Unknown
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. – Henry David Thoreau
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. – Frank A. Clark
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. – Voltaire
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. – Lucy Larcom
Out of difficulties grow miracles. – Jean De La Bruyere
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. – John Quincy Adams
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert Schuller
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. – African Proverb
There are times in everyone’s life when something constructive is born out of adversity… when things seem so bad that you’ve got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. – Author Unknown
The course of true anything never does run smooth. – Samuel Butler
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. – Confucius
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. – Epictetus
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. – Rona Barrett
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. – Max Lerner
There is in every true 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
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