Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

Face to face, difficulties which appear really insuperable at a distance are very often removed altogether from our path.

Dangers which are warded off and difficulties which are overcome before they reach a crisis are utterly unrecognised.

The stern compression of circumstances, the twinges of adversity, the spur of slights and taunts in early years, are needed to evoke that ruthless fixity of purpose and tenacious wit without which great actions are seldom accomplished.

The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.