Adversity Quotes

• "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.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Lib. de Divina Providentia
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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.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Providentia (IV)
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• "The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak, which resists it; and so, in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "Genuine, morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue."
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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• "The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still."
  By: Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (st. 3)
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• "Clouds are the veil behind which the face of day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its beauty."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "He that has no cross deserves no crown."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision."
  By: Colin Powell
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• "When Providence, for secret ends; Corroding cares, or sharp affliction, sends; We must conclude it best it should be so; And not desponding or impatient grow."
  By: John Pomfret
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• "Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us."
  By: Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
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• "Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity."
  By: Periander of Corinth
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• "Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong."
  By: Norman Vincent Peale
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• "That which does not kill me makes me stronger."
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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• "We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort."
  By: Mencius
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• "Adversity is a medicine which people are rather fond of recommending indiscriminately as a panacea for their neighbors. Like other medicines, it only agrees with certain constitutions. There are nerves which it braces, and nerves which it utterly shatters."
  By: Justin Huntly McCarthy
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• "In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed."
  By: Gerald Massey
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