Quotes about Adversity
In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
— Steven Spielberg
The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.
— Joyce Meyer
The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Winston Churchill expresses it well. He says, "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
— Norman Vincent Peale
cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle
— Norman Vincent Peale
The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.
— Norman Vincent Peale
It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.
— Norman Vincent Peale