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

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

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.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

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

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.