Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what w...
Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.
So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a bet...
In every situation, there is a sacred answer.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Pain is the root of knowledge.
When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.