Adversity
Quotes on Adversity
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Seneca (c. 5-65) Roman writer, philosopher, statesman
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) French writer
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Italian theologian, philosopher
A reasonable amount o’ fleas is good fer a dog — keeps him from broodin’ over bein’ a dog.
Edward Noyes Westcott (1847-1898) American author
Struggle is the father of all things … It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
Adolf Hider (1889-1945) German dictator
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
J. Churton Collins (1848-1908) British author, critic, scholar
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Trinculo, The Tempest William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
