Quotes about Adversity

You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.

A sharp stick is better than a blunt sword.

You don't stop planting corn because weeds are going to grow beside it.

Turn your frowns into smiles, your tears into laughter, your weaknesses into strengths, your setbacks into opportunities, and your failures into victories.

Suffering is wisdom's school teacher.

When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience - I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It's definitely something that's helped me with my game.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.