Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if...
I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Success advances the man's cause, adversity cleans the man's soul.
Life is a battle, and you either enter it armed, or surrender immediately.
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant t...
Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of...
Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.
You have to go through the spiritual fires to know the strength of your faith.
What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our motivation to live through every tribulations.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Ama...
Trials are part of the adventure to greatness.
Present trials strengthen you for future blessings.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
Difficulties are things that show what men are.