Quotes about Adversity
And then we'll be emulating Socrates,* once we're able to write hymns of praise in prison.
- Epictetus
It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things.
- Epictetus
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
- Andrew Carnegie
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
- Stephen Covey
When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.
- Bernice King
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
- John Adams
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
- Napoleon Hill
If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
- Bob Marley
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
- George Whitefield
Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.
- Mark McKinnon
Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
- Kobe Bryant
When the danger is great, one must not run away.
- Pope Benedict XVI