Top 100 In Adversity Quotes
#1. In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh
#3. Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.
Charles R. Swindoll
#4. Passions cannot take wings in adversity, and adversities remain prevalent because of dormant passions.
Girdhar Joshi
#5. Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.
Thiruvalluvar
#6. The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.
Bhartrhari
#7. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#8. In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of it. In pleasant situations, you are faced with weapons that will tear you apart, yet you do not realize it.
Zicheng Hong
#9. Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.
Fulton J. Sheen
#10. Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
Charles Stanley
#11. Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!
William Osler
#12. I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small successes, that's what you'll do in adversity.
Gretchen Rubin
#14. If you can win in adversity, you can win anywhere!
Jeff Blatnick
#15. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.
Charles Spurgeon
#16. Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Aristotle.
#17. This was one lesson that the war taught me - that every event in time presents opportunities that are recognizable only to those with enough sensibility to see them, that it is possible to thrive in adversity in the needs of the rulers are pandered to.
F. Sionil Jose
#18. I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
Brendan Gleeson
#19. Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#21. We must ... submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
Robert E.Lee
#22. -To Javed-
My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth;
Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.
Muhammad Iqbal
#24. Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.
Mary McAleese
#25. Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle.
#26. The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
Norm MacDonald
#27. Rightly conceived, time is the friend of all who are in any way in adversity, for its mazy road winds in and out of the shadows sooner or later into sunshine, and when one is at its darkest point one can be certain that presently it will grow brighte.
Arthur Bryant
#29. Remember to be calm in adversity.
Horace
#30. Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca.
#31. One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
Baltasar Gracian
#32. Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed not in prosperity.
Francis Quarles
#34. Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
Robert A. Burton
#35. A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.
Herbert V. Prochnow
#36. 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
#38. It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
Martial
#39. Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#40. 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
#41. Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
#42. But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#44. These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#45. Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.
Aristotle.
#46. The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.
Alexandre Dumas
#47. I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity.
Ronald Reagan
#48. True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
Theophrastus
#49. The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Walt Disney Company
#50. In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.
Horace
#51. As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
Saint Basil
#52. So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.
Francis Quarles
#53. If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.
Jerry Bridges
#54. Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.
Isocrates
#55. Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.
Bhartrhari
#56. Many a time since have I noticed, in persons of Ginevra Fanshawe's light, careless temperament, and fair, fragile style of beauty, an entire incapacity to endure: they seem to sour in adversity, like small beer in thunder.
Charlotte Bronte
#57. When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.]
Richard Baxter
#58. In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ...
William Makepeace Thackeray
#59. The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.
Charles Caleb Colton
#60. It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.
Euripides
#62. I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#63. There was a moral foundation to Walt's movies that people tapped into - a basic moral foundation. In Disney films, you see strong values and role models. You see the importance of being kind to others, of serving others, of finding joy even in adversity.
Pat Williams
#64. When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.
Momofuku Ando
#65. As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
Simon Newcomb
#66. It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
Isocrates
#68. In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
Charles Spurgeon
#69. Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required
Thucydides
#70. It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.
Herbert Hoover
#71. In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
Livy
#72. Sir 12:8 A friend shall not be known in prosperity, and an enemy shall not be hidden in adversity.
Various
#73. To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
Seneca The Younger
#74. In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.
Epictetus
#75. In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
Horace
#76. Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.
James Cook
#77. You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
Og Mandino
#78. Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
Finds in adversity the seed of praise.
Ovid
#79. The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
Seneca The Younger
#80. As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Ovid
#82. No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.
Brigham Young
#83. When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
Ambrose Bierce
#84. So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
Lucretius
#85. Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity.
[Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#86. He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity.
Victor Hugo
#88. He heard the sob she tried to swallow back and thought unhappily that if all the storybooks were right, that there was nobility to be found in adversity and character to be built in tribulation, then he was doing a piss-poor job of both finding and building.
Anonymous
#89. In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life
Martial
#90. When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be discouraged, for resolution is the mother of fortitude, and not only necessary to our support, but very much conducive to our deliverance.
Samuel Palmer
#91. No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Victor Hugo
#92. The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov'd in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.
Robert Dodsley
#93. Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
#94. People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
Bobby Bowden
#95. Adversity awaken in us a strong-will to a daring life.
You become a stronger person with each adversity that you overcome.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#96. Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
Louis L'Amour
#97. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
Ambrose Bierce
#98. Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.
T. B. Joshua
#99. If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
Boyd K. Packer
#100. Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
Alec-Tweedie
