Francis Bacon: The virtue of prosperity is temperance, but the virtue of adversity is…
The virtue of prosperity is temperance, but the virtue of adversity is fortitude; and the last is the more sublime attainment.
In today’s wordsThe virtue of prosperity is self-control, but the virtue of adversity is courage, and courage is the greater achievement.
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- If you can learn to be grateful for correction, you can see all adversity as opportunity.
- If your word is good, you are good. If your word is no good, you are not good.
- Within every conflict lies a key to your future success.
- Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
- In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.