Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

It takes darkness to be aware of the light.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don’t care to know before they surrender!

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

There is a pivotal point in every interaction between humans which sets the course in their relationship. Do you hide or do you shine? Which way are you going to go? Hide or shine?

Adversity is the litmus of faith, and only by continuing on in a spirit of total determination and self belief do we achieve what we set out to do.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in...

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

When we no longer have the strength to keep on walking, God will carry us. His strength is enough for you and I.

Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow proudly into the sky, can do without bad weather and storms: whether...

I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You’ll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You’ll eat more. And on the positive, if you tend to focus on solutions and celebrate small...

Heavenly Father, your ears are ever open to our prayers.Save us now!

Be grateful for the twists in the road. They teach us humility and grace. And any dancer in this life requires both

Even the strongest, most well-built team will, at times, be met with adversity. What makes us great is not that we should anticipate less adversity the stronger that we become, but rather that in anticipation...

With what we have been through, all the adversity, this feels good. Now we have to take what we’ve learned from this and take it on the road with us.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Life must be lived at the right time. Death is not scary when one dies after having lived fully. One must choose to live though and face all adversities.

The game isn’t big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker

My main adversary is myself, … I must not take any risks. I must consolidate and make sure I finish the race.

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising...

Everything that I’ve ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot’s at the other end.

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Without adversity and trials we may never know what we are capable of.

Adversities are opportunities for a daring life.

Do not look at your troubles, it is only a temporary situation.Focus on your countless blessings.

Every successful person had experience failure but they overcome with courage and adamant hope

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth

The true test of a warrior is how your ‘stance’ holds up after any ‘circumstance’. Meaning, even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through...

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of...

Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.

Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.

Adversity sure does gives you trouble, but it keeps you humble.

I could tell we were still tired from (Thursday’s) game. Now it’s time to see how we deal with this adversity.

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.

Adversity is a school that you need not apply to be enrolled. It has no respect for age, wealth, education, race, power, fame or beauty. It is a school among schools and every human being...

No matter how rough the winds of adversities blow,continue to walk with courage and faith. You are much stronger than you could ever imagine.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.