Francis Bacon Quotes
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
Felix Dennis
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
J. Michael Straczynski
By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
Wayne Dyer
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
Lactantius
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving
Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
Dan Millman
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
Samuel Adams
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Zig Ziglar
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus
We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
Zong Qinghou
Though not everyone can attend seminary, every Christian has a seminary between two covers - the Holy Bible. God's Word is a school that trains us for the work He has planned for us on earth.
David Jeremiah
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
Will Self
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon
