“The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.”
“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.”
“There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.”
“Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
“In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.”
“When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.”
“I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”
“If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.”
“Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.”
“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”
“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.”
“A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.”
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”
“Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.”
“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?”
“You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.”
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”
“Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
“It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.”
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.”
“I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.”
“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.”
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”