“It is during the times of adversity and trial when we get to know ourselves better... whether we are strong or weak... whether we have character or not... whether we stick to our valued principles or we give in...”
C Liong
“Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.”
Wayne Abernathy
“We are not defined by our trials, but by how we face them. We are all afraid; bravery is a choice, that though you may lose, you shall never be defeated.”
Jill Hanna
“Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great”
Rose F. Kennedy
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
Washington Irving
“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.”
Tom Krause
“Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood”
Warren E. Burger