adversity Quotes

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise.

The enduring lesson is war is a disaster. Whoever wins, tremendous loss of life, property - a set back for civilisation.