Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
(pl. ) of Victory
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Anything other than death is a minor injury.
If there were no tribulation there would be no rest if there were no winter there would be no summer.
But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.
When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better.
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.
Failure is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and very fresh experience points out some form of error whic...
What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole.
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.