"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has."
-Billy Graham
"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you."
-Jeffrey Gitomer
"You may not realize it when it happens, but at kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
-Walt Disney
"Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."
-Ralph Blum
"I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way."
-J. C. Penney
"The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration."
-Confucius
"There is no education like adversity."
-Benjamin Disraeli
"Adversity builds character and character makes us stronger."
-Mark Wilson
"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."
-Lee Salk
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
-Michael Jordan