Adversity Quote by Alain de Botton

If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's…

— Ian Bogost

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

— Robert Fulton

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

— Joel Osteen

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

— Thomas S. Monson

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

— Brigham Young

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

— Sofia Coppola

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

— Carl Jung

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

— Leo Tolstoy

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card