A Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Adversity Prosperity Shrink Sure Will

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Charles Caleb Colton
English - Writer
1780 - 1832

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

Francis Quarles

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.

Thomas Chalmers

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

Livy

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

Elvis Presley

A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.

Herbert V. Prochnow

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

Robert E. Lee

The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.

Steve Jurvetson

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

William Penn

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.

Henry Fielding

In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.

James Howell

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

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a shrink in New York and a shrink in Arizona, just in case. You never know when you will have a breakdown.

Lisa Lampanelli

There is no secret to how to attain prosperity. The Universe supports and rewards us for taking risks on things that matter to the Universe. When we remember this, the mysteries about prosperity disappear, and prosperity stands explained. Prosperity will then manifest itself easily provided the Universe agrees that we are doing the right things in our lives to deserve this prosperity.