If you wish to overcome any difficulty, resolved to endure adversity.
You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no one will know what you were capable of, not even you yourself.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
A courageous and determined person finds opportunity in every adversity.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Sei...
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no i...
Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
It is in the darkest hour that a star reveals its brightest light.
Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind a...