A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.
John Maxwell
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
American Proverb
A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
Unknown Author
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Alexander Pope
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Sir Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
English Proverb
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
Welsh Proverb
Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.
William A. Ward
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
Horace
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
