The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the g...
You are no greater than the adversity you can handle.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Through storms you are able to get all the colors you need to paint the rainbow.
Great tests precede great blessings.
When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter.
You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim.
I have brightness in my soul which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm.
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.
I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Difficulties opposition criticism - these things are meant to be overcome and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life...
There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
With a perseverance spirit, you withstand any situation.