Adversity Quotations | Page 3

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health.

With every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend.