I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me…

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

— Dwayne Johnson

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

— William Hazlitt

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

— Confucius

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

— Michael Jordan

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

— Robert H. Schuller

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

— Dr. Seuss

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

— Michael Jordan

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

— Henry Ford

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

— Satchel Paige

I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I…

— Vladimir Putin

“You can’t reach the destination which you don’t know. So what’s the use of hard work when you don’t know where it’s taking you?”

— SuccessCoach Nilesh

“So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant…

— Euripides

A good rule for discussion is to use hard facts and a soft voice.

— Dorothy Sarnoff