Adversity And Friendship Quotes & Sayings

No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship. — Suzanne V. Marshall

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. — Charles Caleb Colton

A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow. — Leigh Hunt

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms. — John Lyly

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty. — John Grogan

This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) "Two are better than one, because if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls down and has no one to help them up." God didn't intend for us to do life alone. So let me ask you, who do you turn to when life hits you hard in the mouth? Your family? Some trusted friends? A teacher or coach? Are you building relationships today that will be there for you tomorrow when adversity comes your way? Do you have humility to look to others for strength and encouragement, or are you holding to the foolish pride that says, "I need to make it alone"? — Kirk Cousins

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship. — Soren Kierkegaard

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. — Ulysses S. Grant

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless. — Thiruvalluvar

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

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.
[Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. — Ovid

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter. — James F. Cooper

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind. — Mahatma Gandhi

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity. — Randy Thornhorn

Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul. — Shannon L. Alder

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation. — George Washington

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ... — William Makepeace Thackeray

Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart. — Ambrose

That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity — Ambrose Bierce

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place. — Elizabeth Gaskell

A friendship forged in the fires of adversity is a strong as one that has weathered the test of time. — Lindsey Kelk

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity. — Philip Massinger

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. — John Churton Collins

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing. — Richard Paul Evans

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends. — Euripides

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. — Theophrastus

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested. — C.J. Langenhoven

Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity. — Joseph Smith Jr.

One enjoys friendship most when times are good, when the sun shines and the world is kind. But it is the sharing of adversity that knits men together. — John Christopher

As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other being equally suited to the moral nature of man, or so applicable to every state and circumstance, whether of prosperity or adversity, in which he can possibly be placed. But at the same time I lay it down as a fundamental axiom that "true Friendship can only subsist between those who are animated by the strictest principles of honour and virtue." When I say this, I would not be thought to adopt the sentiments of those speculative moralists who pretend that no man can justly be deemed virtuous who is not arrived at that state of absolute perfection which constitutes, according to their ideas, the character of genuine wisdom. This opinion may appear true, perhaps, in theory, but is altogether inapplicable to any useful purpose of society, as it supposes a degree of virtue to which no mortal was ever capable of rising. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine. — Criss Jami

Friends are proved by adversity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. — J.K. Rowling