1,395 quotes found
“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
“It's essential you create a fiery will from within--harness that power of decisiveness--and choose to be your strongest self.”
“My voice was a bare rasp of fear. "In the weaving room, the women say it's never been this bad before..." "They always say that when things get difficult," she answered softly. Then she sat up sudd...”
“May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is ... Chocolate.”
“Struggle is the food from which change is made, and the best time to make the most of a struggle is when it's right in front of your face. Now, I know that might sound a bit simplistic. But, too of...”
“We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon”
“Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.”
“Until you have stood in another womans stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.”
“Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.”
“We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was mean...”
“Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experi...”
“I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some tim...”
“If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up. And you can keep going and going and go...”
“Memories of the past year came tumbling down on me. The recent changes and reverses were almost overwhelming. I was learning that life flowed like a river. When the run-off was normal, the water ra...”
“I have seen human beings who have forged "intellectual" armor to shield themselves from adversity. They seemed stronger than most. They said, "I couldn't care less," and laughed at everything, but ...”
“I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.”
“It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.”
“Regardless of the situation, dont let the bastards win and have no regrets for it will be a good day!-Richard Wakinyan (Martian Fleet Commander)”
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
“Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”
