Quotations on adversity

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
-Washington Irving
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
-Charles Caleb Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
-Charles Caleb Colton
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity-another man's I mean.
-Mark Twain
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
-Seneca
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
-Lord Byron
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
-Victor Hugo
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
-Francis Bacon
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
-William Hazlitt