Quotes About Adversity

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

The only good thing about times of adversity is that you realize who your real friends and fans are - and the rest go away - which in my mind is an OK thing.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

You find out who your friends are. Some people didn't have much to do with me when I was down. I've got a long memory.

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

Troubles often decides your deepest friends, but deepest friend will never decide to put you into trouble.

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

Laughter feels like our flotation device -- it won't pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.

Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.