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Adversity makes men think of God. - Livy

There is no education like adversity. - Benjamin Disraeli

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

In politics an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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Be willing to access joy in the face of adversity. - C.W. Metcalf

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis Bacon

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. - Thomas Carlyle

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. - Charles C. Colton

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - J. Churton Collins

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain

Knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. - Peter F Drucker

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha.' - Ernst Haas

Slaves who are disabled from working shall be provided for by their masters. - Unknown

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

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away. - Stephen Hawking

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. - Tyler Winklevoss

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. - Chiang Kai-shek

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon

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

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

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. - Confucius

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. - Dag Hammarskjold

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

Even in the midst of life's adversity, struggle or strife, love's enduring presence remains steadfast. - Eleesha

Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. - William K Vanderbilt

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. - John Wooden

Hope itself is like a star - not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. - Charles H Spurgeon

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. - Elvis Presley

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. - C S Lewis

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. - Ram Dass

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. - Arthur Golden

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus