#adversity

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#been #changing #democracy #experience #having

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#affects #better #better person #enough #handle

There is no education like adversity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#education #like

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#deal #inner #know #philosophy #some

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top. ↗

— Ted Turner

#care #get #how #i #intended

Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming. ↗

— Gibson

#hero #story #trials #life

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ↗

— John Wooden

#admirers #adversity #becomes #being #easily

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ↗

— Martha Graham

#fire #gold #men #strong #strong men

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#adversity #great #greater #prosperity

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity. ↗