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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
quote by Elvis Presley
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Certainly 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 Bacon in Of Adversity
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I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.
quote by Kin Hubbard
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Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
quote by King Solomon
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Be frugal in prosperity, fear not in adversity.
In time of prosperity consider how you will bear adversity.
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Prosperity makes freinds, adversity tries them.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
quote by Rose Kennedy
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He that considers in prosperity; will be less afflicted in adversity.
Prosperity gets followers, but adversity distinguishes them.
He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
quote by Publilius Syrus
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We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.