1,395 quotes found
“Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.”
“People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
“Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
“A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.”
“Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.”
“I've had an unhappy life thank God.”
“Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.”
“I think there is this about the great troubles - they teach us the art of cheerfulness whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.”
“They sicken of the calm that know the storm.”
“Opposition inflames the enthusiast never converts him.”
“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.”
“The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.”
“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.”
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.”
“If you do things well do them better. Be daring be first be different be just.”
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows wha...”
“It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.”
“What does not destroy me makes me strong.”
“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.”
