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The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.
Sep 29, 2025
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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.
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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
People will never forget how you made them feel.
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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.