Equanimity Quote by Horace Download Open image “In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Equanimity Hard Hard time Hard times Preserves Prosperity Time Wealth
I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Prosperity comes and goes to leave us miserable, And adversity, on the contrary, will leave us stronger, happier and confident.Therefore bad times are better… — Divya Copy Share Image
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity. — Philemon Copy Share Image
The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining,… — V. Raymond Edman Copy Share Image
Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
