For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
We go through periods of turmoil in our nation's history, and one of the remarkable things about the United States is that we seem to keep making our way through those periods.
My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.
Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.
We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times, it's really painful and hard. Sometimes it's really funny. 'Foxcatcher' is kind of like a metaphor for that.
If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.
You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.
I believe it is only when one comes out of adversity, that one starts to see real beauty.
I have done a lot of great things. I have a beautiful family and wonderful friends. But there were many times, dark times, that I almost let it all slip through my fingers.
