Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Adversity

Quotes about: Adversity

• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Leadership, Hope, Encouragement

  "History of Logan County and Ohio" by O.L. Baskin, (p. 577), 1880.

• Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Congratulations, Adversity

• All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Depressing

• The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Friendship, Adversity, Flames

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

• Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Adversity, Blessing, Sometimes

• Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Friendship, Adversity, Ties

• There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Spring, Adversity, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.199

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Adversity, Prosperity, Shrinks

• He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Adversity, Half, Known

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.238

• The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Revenge, Adversity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.297

• He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Adversity, Extremes, Knows

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.23

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