adversity Quotes

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

All of us feel, I think, that our experiences can be the worst possible thing you can go through and that we're alone in it, which is isolating and intense and insurmountable. But we can get over it.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.