Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.
Unless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
Never complain about your troubles they are responsible for more than half of your income.
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.
Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.
People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
Be willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
There are two ways to live our lives , the easy way and the hard way , if you choose to live the hard way , stop expecting anything at all , don't get your hopes high , no matter how good you are , yo...
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
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...
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our...
With a perseverance spirit, you withstand any situation.
Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.
Great obstacles are no match for a great God.
We do not have control over what happens to us. But we have the courage to conquer.