Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

One doesn’t mind adverse criticism so long as it isn’t stupid.