If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when you're faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?

I think I'm very calm in adversity, always remaining calm, and I don't panic. I think that's the main thing.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

I'm able to make decisions even in the face of adversity.

Adversity is a huge advantage - as long as you think of it as an advantage - because it helps you do things you never thought you were capable of doing.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.

How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.

You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.