#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.”

“This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.”

“The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo”

“Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.”

“One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.”

“I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.”

“The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.”

“But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.”

“He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.”

“Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise”

“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”

“Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.”

“For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.”

“Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.”

“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”

“Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.”

“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

“Nature turns all malfaisance to good.”

“Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.”

“Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.”

“Pain pays the income of each precious thing.”

“If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.”

“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

“Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.”

“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.”

“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.”