The riders have comeback from the face of adversary... [we think he meant adversity!]
Phil LiggettThe friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S GrantAdversity reminds men of religion
LivyYou'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Golda MeirThe experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself- always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy CarterAdversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
Jean-Antoine Petit-SennNothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
PlutarchCourage is adversity's lamp.
Luc De VauvanarguesBy adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel DanielAny man can win when things go his way, it's the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion.
Jock EwingIt is noble and so regarded both among nations and individuals to keep faith in adversity
Titus Caius Silius ItalicusLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais NinWithout adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Henry FieldingIf we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Josh BillingsHe who does not tire, tires adversity.
Martin TupperAdversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh BillingsAdversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters
Victor HugoTrue friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George WashingtonA true friend is tested in adversity
Quintus EnniusWe survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort
MenciusNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham LincolnMany who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
TacitusFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha GrahamEducation is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
AristotleProsperity makes friends, adversity tries them. - Maxims
Publilius SyrusCertainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis BaconIt is noble and so regarded both among nations and individuals to keep faith in adversity
Titus Caius Silius ItalicusLove is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent
Robert HerrickFresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheShow me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity
Lou HoltzFor in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
BoethiusHe knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare PaveseOne thing I suffered from as a kid was I never felt adversity. The sense of being immune was, ludicrously, a painful one.
Diane ArbusWe see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
TacitusAs the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity
OvidWeak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
David HareIn prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh
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