Quotes About Adversity

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

Just because we're in a STRESSFUL situation doesn't mean that we have to get stressed out. You may be in the storm. The key is, don't let the storm get in YOU.

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

My motto is water off a duck's back. Meaning: don't let negativity weigh you down, perpetuate positive thinking.

Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.