Adversity Quote by Bill Vaughan

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Ben Jonson

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

— Herman Melville

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

— William Samuel Johnson

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

— Anonymous

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can…

— Laurence Sterne

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

— Anonymous

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

— Publilius Syrus

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

— Sophocles

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

— Jonathan Edwards