Thriving in Adversity Quotes

Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity.

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.

Grace grows best in winter.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.

The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become.

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

We cannot wait for the storm to blow over; we must learn to work in the rain.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

Become very comfortable being uncomfortable.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.

Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.

The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

I don't seem able to do my best unless I'm behind or in trouble.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

It does if you put yourself out there being a pirate. It's like if you have an army and your army sit around and not doing anything and living the lives of decadence and they're faced with a battle, and you slide. Do they deserve the right to call themselves an army? Do these pirates who are basically languishing deserve the right to call themselves pirates? They're victims of their own success.