Adversity Quotes

“Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.”

“Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.”

“Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.”

“To take arms against a sea of troubles.”

“Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.”

“Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.”

“As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.”

“Every cloud engenders not a storm.”

“The thorny pointOf bare distress hath ta'en from me the showOf smooth civility; yet am I inland bredAnd know some nurture.”

“When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.”

“Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.”

“When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.”

“Extremity is the trier of spirits.”

“'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”

“Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.”

“In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.”

“Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,The seasons' difference, as the icy fangAnd churlish chiding of the winter's wind,Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.”

“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”

“I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.”

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

“Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.”

“Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.”

“To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.”

“Adversity makes strange bedfellows.”

“Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine itTo lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.Suppose the singing birds musicians,The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no moreThan a delight measure or a dance;For gnarling sorrow hath less power to biteThe man that mocks at it and sets it light.”