To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the… — Sebastian Roche Copy Share Image
Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“Well, well! it might be worse, and then again it might be a good deal better. No ponies, and no food, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
Real strength is tested in adversity. One who overcomes obstacle with determination and decides not to give up develops real strength. — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I’ll say, G’day to you, Mr. Ryan!” Catherine said as she quickly closed the door in his face. “Oh, the arrogance,” she… — Diane Merrill Wigginton Copy Share Image
“For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. (Psalms 109:4) — Bible Copy Share Image
“Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.” — APJ Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Usually, when you can't overcome the obstacles in your path, it's not your path. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.” — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
After hunger, a human's most important need is to know what is virtuous. — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
