“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”
William Arthur Ward
“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”
John Heywood
“We are not defined by our trials, but by how we face them. We are all afraid; bravery is a choice, that though you may lose, you shall never be defeated.”
Jill Hanna
“In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty”
English Proverb
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”
Epictetus