Quotes about Adversity

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

For this reason it is the dark that provides the leader with his greatest opportunities. It is your response to the dark that determines in large part whether or not you will be called on to lead. For the darkness is what keeps the average person from stepping outside the security of what has always been.

Wherever there is fear, there is opportunity. Wherever there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.

Everyone deals with pressure in different ways.