Quotes About Adversity

If hard things ultimately have a purpose, then they aren't so hard anymore.

If hard things ultimately have a purpose, then they aren't so hard anymore.

She found value in conflict, no matter what. "The purpose of ass-kicking is not that your ass gets kicked at the right time or for the right reason," she often explained. "It's to keep your ass sensitive.

For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be "of good mind," in her phrase, which also meant a people's ability to survive.

I thank him for surviving—and teaching.

Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Marriage was man and wife, side by side as they were now, sharing life's adventures and battling its challenges...together.  It was an alliance forged of the finest steel, tempered in the fires of adversity, and thus blessed by unrivaled strength.

Glynnis Campbell

A strong urge to succeed coupled with strong opposition to what it takes to succeed is the surest way to failure.

Always be better than your circumstances.

Challenges do more good than harm in the journey to success. That is why it' s called success.

Every time I lose one, I get three or more.

Failure has often happened to me but I have never failed.

From people of goodwill, I get inspiration, from my detractors, I derive aspiration.

Good and few opportunities are obvious, better and more opportunities accompany challenges while the best and most opportunities come in the form of challenges.

Nothing can arouse the human spirit as challenges can, nothing can do the contrary as they can. You get to choose.

Obstruction is the fate of the feared, the envied.

Opportunity thrives best in adversity. They are simultaneous, not adversary.

Some people are meant to be FIGHTERS while others are meant to be fighters, to fight the FIGHTERS.

The best way to avoid challenges is to expect them.

The hell you pass through is not as severe as the one you would create for yourself out of it.

The reason many fail to cut the tree is, they come with a knife.

To the normal, the greatest enemy is not the abnormal but those who stay normal in abnormal circumstances.