True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up.
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome.
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.
They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
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...
Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
You did anything to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed.
When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street....
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
All times are treasureable; the times of prosperity, and times of adversity,
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.