Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: power character adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. —Rose Kennedy More about this quote Tags: greatness luck struggle prosperity adversity good fortune Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: fighting fitness adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: humor learning adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. —Anne Bradstreet More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By courage I repel adversity. (Adversa Virtute Repello) —Unknown More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. —Ben Jonson More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. —Chilo More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Adversity is the touchstone of friendship. —French Proverb More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. —Henry Fielding More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Henry Fielding More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In adversity remember to keep an even mind. —Horace More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity. —J. K. Rowling More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. —John Churton Collins More about this quote Tags: adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email