Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
If your house is on fire warm yourself by it.
(pl. ) of Victory
From a fallen tree make kindling.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.
The challenge is never based on the size of the obstacle that stands before me. Rather, it is dictated by the degree of faith that rests within me.
Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.
Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
There is no victory without pain.
Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
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