Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do? — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
“How could we have achieved the set-goal, without endurance to the end?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I think adversity magnifies behavior. Tend to be a control freak? You'll become more controlling. Eat for comfort? You'll eat more. And… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
War is being declared to-morrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make… — Max Cleland Copy Share Image
“Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Obstacles are like the unwanted grass that grows in front of our houses. If we keep stepping on it everyday the grass… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
“This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“If one starts to wonder why one has to go through painful events and then laments about one’s fate, then what comes… — Ryōjun Shionuma Copy Share Image
The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
