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Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Unknown

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

Prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them. - Publilius Syrus

Stand up for truth, regardless of who steps on it. - Suzy Kassem

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis Bacon

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

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. - William A. Ward

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair. - Keith Richards

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

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A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures. - James E Faust

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

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. - Chen Guangcheng

Start an editorial calendar that everyone involved in your blog can access. - Kristi Hines

Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. - Jean-Jacques Rosseau

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

The 12-step chocolate program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate! - Terry Moore

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

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty;
In time of adversity not one in twenty. - English Proverb

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

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. - Robert G. Ingersoll

In times of great stress or adversity, plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca

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

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. - Vance Havner

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

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. - Lou Holtz

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

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. - Samuel Daniel

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

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels. - Sheila Ballantyne

Four steps to achievement:
1. Plan purposefully.
2. Prepare prayerfully.
3. Proceed positively.
4. Pursue persistently. - William A. Ward

Have a bias towards action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. - Indira Gandhi