Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.
The tree that stands to the tempest is strong;the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
When darkness comes,stars shine.When storms come,plants flourish.When adversity comes,champions triumph.
The loveliest flowers sometimes grow in the ugliest places.
As water downs ships but upholds leaves,and as fires burn cities but refines gold,so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatnessand the proud to ruin.
Sweet are the uses of adversity Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship this pressure produces diamonds.
Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.
Fire tries gold misfortune men.
Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.