William Hazlitt Adversity Quotes

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

- William Hazlitt

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

- William Hazlitt

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

- Anonymous

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

- Herbert George Wells

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

- Publilius Syrus

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

- Harry Truman

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made

- Sophocles

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

- Bion

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

- Sophocles

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

- Bible

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare