Excellence costs a great deal.
If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.
(pl. ) of Victory
Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.
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.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to b...
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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.
To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
The most valuable gift I ever received was the gift of insecurity my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the roa...
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
There is no victory without pain.