Quotes About Adversity

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out there in the rain. We didn't always have a gym to go to.

A blocked path also offers guidance.

Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.