Category: Adversity

Unbeatable Combination

Posted February 14, 2021 - Adversity, Attitude

Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

— Napoleon Hill —

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Winds and Who We Really Are

Posted February 6, 2021 - Adversity, Attitude

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

— Arthur Golden —

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Challenges and Power

Posted February 5, 2021 - Adversity, Attitude

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

— Joseph Campbell —

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging…

Enduring Defeat

Posted February 3, 2021 - Adversity, Attitude

You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

— Maya Angelou —

You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure…

Hardship

Posted February 2, 2021 - Adversity, Attitude

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

— C. S. Lewis —

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

Handling Problems

Posted August 25, 2020 - Adversity, Fear, Success

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

— Norman Vincent Peale —

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem…

Education and Adversity

Posted February 18, 2020 - Adversity

There is no education like adversity.

— Benjamin Disraeli —

There is no education like adversity…

Valleys and Growth

Posted February 17, 2020 - Adversity

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

— Winston Churchill —

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them…

Misfortune or Fortunate?

Posted October 1, 2019 - Adversity

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

— Washington Irving —

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.