Quotes about Adversity
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
- Maya Angelou
Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.
- Brian Tracy
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
- Theodore Roosevelt
When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.
- Sheryl Sandberg
There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.
- John Maxwell
The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
- John Wooden
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.
- Marianne Williamson
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
- John Maxwell
He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.
- Alice Hoffman