Quotes about Adversity

With the right attitude, a failure can be converted into a lesson and a stepping-stone for future success.

When you hit a wall, try to dig a tunnel beneath or fly above!

As you move forward on your journey from where you are to where you want to be, you are going to have to confront your fears. Fear is natural. Whenever you start a new project, take on a new venture, or put yourself out there, there is usually fear. Unfortunately, most people let fear stop them from progress.

Was God's grace in these dark circumstances that drew me closer to Him.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.