Adversity Quote by Edmund Burke

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion;…

— Samuel Warren

Difficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.

— Paulo Coelho

“Troubles teaches what must be taught.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

— Epictetus

“Troubles are teachable lessons.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Your difficulty can be hard enough, but the resentment or anger you drag along with it can be even more debilitating than the difficulty…

— Jennifer Rothschild

Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind,…

— Kobe Bryant

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

— Charles de Gaulle

“Troubles teaches us what we fail to learn.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

— Samuel Smiles

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

— Edmund Burke