Adversity Friendship Quotes

#1. The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Ulysses S. Grant

#2. Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.
[Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

John Lyly

#4. Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

#6. As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

#7. North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#8. One enjoys friendship most when times are good, when the sun shines and the world is kind. But it is the sharing of adversity that knits men together.

John Christopher

#9. True 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

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

J.K. Rowling

#11. It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

Euripides

#12. No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.

Suzanne V. Marshall

#13. Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

Criss Jami

#14. In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ...

William Makepeace Thackeray

#15. 0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

Philip Massinger

#16. True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Theophrastus

#17. Friends are proved by adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#18. A friendship forged in the fires of adversity is a strong as one that has weathered the test of time.

Lindsey Kelk

#19. The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

Leigh Hunt

#21. Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#22. Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

C.J. Langenhoven

#23. All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24. Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

#25. Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#26. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

George Washington

#27. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

James F. Cooper

#29. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

Randy Thornhorn

#30. Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.

Thiruvalluvar

#31. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

Ambrose Bierce