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Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
Sep 10, 2025
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
I love those who can smile in trouble.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.