Quotes About Adversity

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Prosperity has many friends, even adversity has a few friends, but originality practicing the reality of altruistic humanity in life has only true friends.

It is during the worst times of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care for you.

As it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Seasons change and people too, I'm so glad that I had you out there. Through the rise and through the fall, even when I'd lost it all. You cared like no one else.

On the bright side, a horrible tragedy really shows you who your true friends are.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

Friends will abandon you in times of disgrace, but enemies will follow you to your death.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere

Someone helping you is not always your friend and someone opposing you is not always your enemy.

You cant make a million friends without getting a few haters. But remember, haters only hate the person they can't be.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish