VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends, While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich

In prosperity our friends know us, in adversity we know our friends.

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

Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity a greater.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.

We become wiser by adversity, prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity, the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind, privation trains and strengthens it.