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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.
It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.
Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.
Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.
You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.
It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.
What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.
Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.
It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.
I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer, or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.
There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.
As African American, gay drag queens, we live with more adversity and challenges.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.