Quotes about Adversity

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

No weapon formed against me shall prosper.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

My family is used to all manner of controversy.

I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity—awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls' most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Only those who never step, never stumble.