56 quotes found
“If there were no tribulation there would be no rest if there were no winter there would be no summer.”
“I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.”
“If your house is on fire warm yourself by it.”
“A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long-time-no-see." If he hadn't broken your heart y...”
“When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
“From a fallen tree make kindling.”
“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.”
“Our way is not soft grass it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards forward toward the sun.”
“Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”
“Failure is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and very fresh experience points out some form of error which...”
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.”
“When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better.”
“Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.”
“The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.”
“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.”
