A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

— Shannon L. Alder

Accept the fullness in life's balance, which demands that there are positive gifts along with adversity.

— Bryant McGill

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

— John Neal

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

— Mildred W. Struven

A courageous and determined person finds opportunity in every adversity.

— Debasish Mridha

A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.

— Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

Adapt to any situation.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

— Anonymous

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

— Jacqueline Cochran

Adversity awaken in us a strong-will to a daring life. You become a stronger person with each adversity that you overcome.

— Lailah Gifty Akita