Adversity Quote by Kobe Bryant

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

— William C. Bryant

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

— William C. Bryant

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 a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we…

— Edmund Burke

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

— Anonymous

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

— Epictetus

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

— Paulo Coelho

Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.

— James E. Loehr

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in…

— Carl Rogers

“It has been my experience that the "hardest" people in the world are actually the most fragile and the most soft-spoken are the strongest...”

— Charles M. Blow

“Hardness," I was learning, was the supreme virtue among recon Marines. The greatest compliment one could pay to another was to say he was…

— Nathaniel Fick

Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.

— Margaret Thatcher