You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.
Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.
Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you’re feeling sorry for yourself because you’re faced with adversity.
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don’t have to sit on it.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.
Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.
Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.
Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.
The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.
There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.
You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.
Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.
No one’s life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it’s this adversity – and more specifically our resilience – that makes us strong and successful.
It’s just me against the world.