Edmund Burke Quotes

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

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.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.

Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns.

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

There is no limit to suffering.

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

You will have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, just remember to always handle yourself with grace and dignity.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

No, that's what I think God does to you. He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable. And for most of that time, I have to say, my personal life was pretty miserable.

We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth and home would be cold indeed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect.

Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.