Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.