What are some inspirational quotes to overcome adversity?

Here are a few that you may find inspirational. They focus on the benefits that can be derived from facing adversity:

Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.
Author: Norma H. Hill

Adversity is the first path to truth.
Author: Lord Byron

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. Author: Sir Winston Churchill

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Author: Francis Bacon

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Author: Horace

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Author: Victor Hugo

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Author: Washington Irving

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.-Andre Gride

He that cannot endure the bad will never live to see the good. - Yiddish Proverb

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. ~ Tommy Lasorda

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ~ Vincent Lombardi

Shit happens.