Quotes about Adversity
Crisis doesn't necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it. Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.
— John Maxwell
The problem promise: when you handle them well, problems promise to make you better.
— John Maxwell
Downsides rarely have an upside unless you are ready for them on the front end.
— John Maxwell
Realize that the guys who criticize will minimize the guys whose enterprise rises above the guys who criticize and minimize.
— John Maxwell
Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.
— John Maxwell
it's not over until you've learned from it.
— John Maxwell
Limit the effect of any emotional high or low to the twenty-four-hour period that follows the occurrence.
— John Maxwell
Don't avoid paying the immediate price of change—if you do, you will pay the ultimate price of never improving.
— John Maxwell
Learn to view your problems as temporary stumbling blocks.
— John Maxwell
It doesn't matter what job you do or what position you obtain; you will have limits. That's just the way life is.
— John Maxwell
Life involves struggle.
— John Maxwell
You have to experience a lot of failure to achieve success. And the more failure you go through, the higher your success.
— John Maxwell