Affirmations and Quotations

Adversity

The difficult is that which can be done immediately; The impossible, that which takes a little longer.

—George Santayana

We will either find a way or make one.

—Hannibal

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

—Mark Twain

Those things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

—Louise Nevelson

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

—Horace

What does not destroy us makes us stronger.

—Feidrich Nietzsche

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

—Martin Luther King

Remember we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.

—Emily Kimbrough

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

—Robert Kennedy

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

—Helen Keller

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

—Adam Clayton Powell