Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.
[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.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
When I was very young I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too that I didn't show more promise at it or I might have been an automobile dealer.
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.
The most valuable gift I ever received was ... the gift of insecurity ... my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on...
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.
This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state and so is most beneficial to us.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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