Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. Read Summary
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped. Read Summary
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. Read Summary
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. Read Summary
The best way out of a difficulty is through it. Read Summary
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? Read Summary
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Read Summary
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. Read Summary
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Read Summary
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Read Summary
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. Read Summary
He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy. Read Summary
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. Read Summary
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. Read Summary
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Read Summary
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity. Read Summary
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Read Summary
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it. Read Summary
As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need. Read Summary
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse. Read Summary