Quotes About Adversity

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

War is an option of difficulties.

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

The godly are not exempt from trouble but are preserved in it.

Deadwood did not kill itself!

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less resilient.

Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.