Adversity Quote by Thucydides Download Open image “Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.” — Thucydides ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Easier Mankind Nature of man Prosperity Wealth
Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have… — Alan Gregg Copy Share Image
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity. — Confucius Copy Share Image
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position... — Thucydides Copy Share Image
War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
