Adversity Quotes

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

Adversity doesnt build character, it reveals it.

Adversity makes men remember God.

Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head… (As You Like It)

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If […]

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

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.