Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.