Adversity - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969<![CDATA[A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63197<![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/726<![CDATA[When a heart breaks it also opens -Jeff Arch- screenwriter. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/727<![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/728<![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/729<![CDATA[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730<![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/731<![CDATA[Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/732<![CDATA[By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/733<![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/701<![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702<![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/703<![CDATA[His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/704<![CDATA[Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/705<![CDATA[Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/706<![CDATA[A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/707<![CDATA[In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/708<![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709<![CDATA[Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them ... ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/710<![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/711<![CDATA[Adversity makes a man wise, not rich ... ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/712<![CDATA[In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/713<![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/714<![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/715<![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/716<![CDATA[If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/717<![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/719<![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/720<![CDATA[If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/721<![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/722<![CDATA[diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/723<![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/724<![CDATA[No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/725<![CDATA[If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/676<![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/677<![CDATA[It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/678<![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/679<![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680<![CDATA[Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/681<![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/682<![CDATA[When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/683<![CDATA[Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/684<![CDATA[Beware of the friend who was once your foe. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/685<![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/686<![CDATA[. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/687<![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/688<![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/689<![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/690<![CDATA[Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/691