Man Adversity Quotes
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Man Adversity Quotes & Sayings
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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
— Pliny The Elder
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
— Seneca The Younger
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
— Lucretius
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
— E.B. White
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
— John Wooden
Art is man's refuge from adversity.
— Menander
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
— Will Rogers
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
— Thomas Carlyle
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
— Seneca The Younger
A man I am cross'd with adversity.
— William Shakespeare
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
— Charles De Gaulle
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
— Alexander Pope
Adversity helps a man to know his inherent great abilities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
— Samuel Johnson
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself
— Seneca.
Never judge the life of another man.
You never know his struggles. — Lailah Gifty Akita
You never know his struggles. — Lailah Gifty Akita
In adversity man is saved by hope.
— Bill Vaughan
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
— Josh Billings
Affliction is a good man's shining time.
— Edward Young
Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man's duty and should be his joy.
— Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III
I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.
— Jose Maria Aznar
Man needs difficult times for reflection and personal growth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man ... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity introduces man to himself.
— Arn Anderson
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
— Henry Fielding
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
— Victor Hugo
Adversity awakens the spirit of every man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Adversity introduces a man to himself. ~Author Unknown
— Steve Hilts
Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
— Alex Faickney Osborn
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
— Criss Jami
Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.
— Shia Labeouf
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
— Thomas A Kempis
God use times of adversity to revive the spirit of every man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
— Seneca The Younger
The distance between a man and his dream is adversity.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
— Thomas A Kempis
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
— Marcus Aurelius
Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man
— Nelson Mandela
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering - that is a fact.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Adversity refined a man like gold.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The soul of a man is strong enough to withstand any adversity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong.
— Raheel Farooq