"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity." -Lou Holtz
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it." –Michael Jordan
"Kites rise against the wind, not with it." -Kay Yow
“The difficulties and struggles today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.” -Rev. William J. H. Boetcker
"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has." -Billy Graham
“If things go wrong, don't go with them.” - Roger Babson
"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you." -Jeffrey Gitomer
"The guys who separate themselves are those who are able to take what appear to be setbacks and stay prepared, keep working." –Derek Fisher
"You may not realize it when it happens, but at kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." -Walt Disney
"Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings." -Ralph Blum
"I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way." -J. C. Penney
"The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration." -Confucius
"There is no education like adversity." -Benjamin Disraeli
"Adversity builds character and character makes us stronger." -Mark Wilson
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them." –Orison Swett Marden
"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars." -Lee Salk
"If we don't force our players to react to things: if we don't put them in tough situations, then it's our fault they can't react to them in ball game." –Bob Knight
"My motto was to always keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." -Hank Aaron
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." -Michael Jordan
“Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have lain dormant in its absence.” -Herodotus
“Adversity is a stimulus.” -James Broughton
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.” -Arthur Golden
“There can be no great victories in life unless there is tremendous adversity.” –Earl Bruce
“Adversity is the first path to truth.” -Lord Byron
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." –Louisa May Alcott
“Adversity can make you better if you don’t let it make you bitter.” –John Maxwell
"We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." -C.S. Lewis
"If there are flaws, they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation." -Elliot Richardson-
“Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.“ -John Wooden
“Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.“ -Henry Fielding
“All successful projects are simply a long series of adversities which must be overcome.” –William A. Cohen
“Far from it being unusual to face adversity, it is normal, and it is our business to overcome it.” –William A. Cohen
“The real test is not when we are successful when there is no adversity, but when there is and we triumph.” –William A. Cohen
”When we face these challenges and position them so that we fell we have no alternative, that there can be no excuses, we can accomplish the impossible.” –William A. Cohen
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." –African Proverb
“Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.” -Samuel Johnson
"The gem cannot be polished without friction." -Chinese Proverb
"I think the bottom line for the coach and his squad is how they deal with frustration, disappointment and failure -- how they deal failure. And I think that's really the best way to judge and to analyze a coach and a program -- it's how they rebound from frustration and failure." –Bill Walsh
"May there be enough clouds in your life to make a beautiful sunset." -Rebecca Gregory
"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?" -Rose Kennedy
"Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems." -Nelson A. Rockefeller
“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” -Epicurus
“Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.” -Tom Cochrane
“How can you overcome adversity and beat the system if there is no suffering? If you are going to be persistent you have to fail at something. You have to have a negative experience. You have to be able to bounce back from a negative experience and make it into a positive experience.” –Nick Saban
"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has." -Billy Graham
“I don’t believe anyone ever got to the top without going through the valleys.” –Bob Richards
"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you." -Jeffrey Gitomer
"You may not realize it when it happens, but at kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." -Walt Disney
"Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings." -Ralph Blum
"I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way." -J. C. Penney
"The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration." -Confucius
"There is no education like adversity." -Benjamin Disraeli
"Adversity builds character and character makes us stronger." -Mark Wilson
“Adversity is the first path to truth. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is greater.” –Vince Lombardi
"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars." -Lee Salk
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." -Michael Jordan
“Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.” -Eliza Tabor
“Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.” -Les Brown
“Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.” -Marsha Sinetar
“Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.” -Evan Esar
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” -Henry David Thoreau
“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” -Robert Kiyosaki
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” -Martin Luther King Jr
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” -Jim Rohn
"It's not the disability that defines you, it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. We have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability." -Jim Abbott
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance." -H. Jackson Brown
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." -Walter Elliott
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race." -Calvin Coolidge
"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." -John D. Rockefeller
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." -Conrad Hilton
"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying. 'Here comes number seventy-one!'" -Richard M. Devos
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." -Admiral Hyman Rickover
"For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again." -Proverbs 24:16
“The world is full of thorns and thistles. It’s all in how you grasp them.” -Arnold Glasow
“I can honestly say, from the bottom of my heart, I have never had a crisis in my life or a setback that has not made me stronger, and it’s turned out to be a positive thing in my life -- if I reacted positively to it. And many times I feel that the adversity and the setbacks that you experience are preparing you for something bigger and better, so when you get in that situation, or even a tougher one in the future, you’ll be able to handle it.” -Lou Holtz
