Seeds pour out oil when pressed.Grapes pour out wine when squeezed.Herbs pour out medicine when pounded.Flowers pour out perfume when crushed.The gifted pour out excellence when tested.
He who runs from a challenge runs from an opportunity.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
The most beautiful rainbows are sometimes formed in the ugliest storms.
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great.
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
It is at night, not in the day, that stars shine the brightest.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up.
What we want is never simple.
Only because of darkness are we able to clearly see the stars.
Adversity is the evil twin of reward.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence every one must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.
Your breaking point is often your blessing point.
Adversity is opportunity inside out.
Adversity is the door to opportunity.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.
I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.
The tree that stands to the tempest is strong;the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest.
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