Quotes about Adversity

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis. The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.

The enemy fights the hardest when you are closest to your breakthrough. Know that your best days are ahead and no weapon formed will prosper.

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.

Harsh winters precede pleasant springs.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

When I was younger, I had a terrible problem with stuttering.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.