Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

People want you to fail.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

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

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

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

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.