Adversity Quote by Benjamin Haydon

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after…

— Benjamin Haydon

At first you struggle to earn name, fame and reputation, then you struggle to maintain it and at last you struggle to save it.

— Anonymous

“The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.”

— Joel T. McGrath

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

— Anonymous

“Youth is the only season for enjoyment, and the first twenty-five years of one's life are worth all the rest of the longest life…

— George Borrow

“Because we survived difficulties that others never had to face, we have far more potential than we realize. We were forced to develop qualities…

— Brian F. Martin

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Family conditions early in life cast a long shadow. That principle holds broadly, but with exceptions, and in this context they are numerous. The…

— Karl Alexander

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

— Anonymous

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

— Fausto Coppi