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Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around. Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, "Rock Bott Quotes

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. Winston Churchill Quotes

The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold. Antonio Porchia Quotes

Bygone troubles are good to tell. Yiddish Proverb Quotes

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russell Lowell, "Cambridge Thi Quotes

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell Quotes

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish... but battle on. J.K. Rowling Quotes

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. Boris Pasternak Quotes

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. Aeschylus Quotes

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Dr. Seuss Quotes

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. William Stafford Quotes

Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. Mr. Spock Quotes

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. Jean Paul Richter Quotes

I have been walking onto ballfields for 16 years, and I've never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. I have had the great honor to have played with these great veteran ballplayers on my left -- Murderers Row, our championship team of 1927. I have had the further honor living and playing with these men on my right-- the Bronx Bombers, the Yankees of today. I have been given fame and undeserved praise by the boys up there behind the wire, my friends, the sports writers. I have worked under the two greatest managers of all time, Miller Huggins and Joe McCarthy. I have a mother and father who fought to give me health and a solid background in my youth. I have a wife, a companion for life, who has shown me more courage than I ever knew. People all say that I've had a bad break. But today --today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. Author Unknown Quotes

Lou Gehrig Delivers "Farewell to Baseball Address" at Yankee Stadium Author Unknown Quotes

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. Ingmar Bergman Quotes

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Dudley Bradstreet Quotes

"Adversity is the first path to truth." Lord (George Gordon) Byron Quotes

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour." Sir Winston Churchill Quotes

"...The wife, soon to be a mother, could hardly catch her breath in the heavy, choking dust, for even in the pure air she breathed hard from her burden. Each jolt of the wagon, for those ahead had made wagon ruts almost 'ex' deep, wrung from her clenched lips a half-groan that she did her best to keep from the anxious, solicitous husband plodding slowly along, guiding and goading the poor dumb cattle, themselves weary from the long trek. So through the long day of jolting and discomfort and sometimes pain, sometimes panting for breath, the mother, anxious only that the unborn babe should not be injured, rode, for she could not walk; and The Children walked, for the load was too heavy and big for them to ride; and the father walked sturdily alongside and prayed....
Then the morning came when from out that last wagon floated the cry of the newborn babe, and mother love made a shrine, and Father bowed in reverence before it. But the train must move on. So out into the dust and dirt the last wagon moved again, swaying and jolting, while Mother eased as best she could each pain-giving jolt so no harm might be done her, that she might be strong to feed the little one, bone of her bone, flesh of her flesh. Who will dare to say that angels did not cluster round and guard her and ease her rude bed, for she had given another choice spirit its mortal body that it might work out its God-given destiny?" J. (Joshua) Reuben Clark, Jr. Quotes

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbow'd.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Lies but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley Quotes

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." Horace Quotes

The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we can, and if we can we must.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. A.E. Housman Quotes

Growing up I had a horrible speech impediment. I stuttered to where I couldn't even talk in class. I couldn't even give one-word answers because I would stutter, which in turn made me mad. I fought a lot and I stayed in trouble a lot. I never had someone come in and say, 'We want to have you see a speech therapist to help you'. I was too poor. People that live on the borderline of poverty do not get charity because it does not go that far down the line. I wish I had someone to help me, but it never happened. I did it myself. I still get stuck on a word sometimes, but I don't let it bother me. When I go home, people say, 'Man, it would take you 10 minutes to say a sentence when you were young, and now you're traveling around the country, speaking to corporations and thousands of people. How...did you do it?'" Bo Jackson Quotes

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." Henry Kaiser Quotes

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." Joshua J. Marine Quotes

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." Thomas Paine Quotes

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world. Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

�Adversity, in one form or another, is the universal experience of man. It is the common lot of all � to experience misfortune, suffering, sickness, or other adversities. Ofttimes our work is arduous and unnecessarily demanding. Our faith is tried in various ways�sometimes unjustly tried, it seems. At times it seems that even God is punishing us and ours. One of the things that makes all this so hard to bear is that we ourselves appear to be chosen for this affliction while others presumably escape these adversities...
But we cannot indulge ourselves the luxury of self-pity� Marion George Romney Quotes

Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish -- even I (I say) if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It was no wonder the fishers had not understood me. The wonder was rather that they had ever guessed my pitiful illusion, and taken the trouble to come back. I had starved with cold and hunger on that island for close upon one hundred hours. But for the fishers, I might have left my bones there, in pure folly. And even as it was, I had paid for it pretty dear, not only in past sufferings, but in my present case; being clothed like a beggar-man, scarce able to walk, and in great pain of my sore throat.
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first. Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched. Tacitus Quotes

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. Martin Luther Quotes

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote Quotes

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Cicero Quotes

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. Woody Hayes Quotes

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. Homer Quotes

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates Quotes

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. Lucy Larcom Quotes

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. Bernard M. Baruch Quotes

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates Quotes

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust Quotes

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best. Leslie Grossman Quotes

Problems are the price you pay for progress. Branch Rickey Quotes

My strength is made perfect in weakness. II Corinthians Quotes

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest Fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misFortune of its power. Seneca Quotes

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. Jean Anouilh Quotes

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. Winston Churchill Quotes

Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Quotes

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. William Faulkner Quotes

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. Harry Crews Quotes

But ah! disasters have their use;
And life might e'en be too sun-shiny.
Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes

God gave burdens, also shoulders. Yiddish Proverb Quotes

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. Morris Mandel Quotes

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. Confucius Quotes

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. Hugh Miller Quotes

Better bread with water than cake with trouble. Russian Proverb Quotes

It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. William Hazlitt Quotes

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon Quotes

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. Author Unknown Quotes

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. Antonio Porchia Quotes

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. Billie Holiday Quotes

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it. Lewis Carroll Quotes

Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. Lucretius Quotes

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. Walt Schmidt Quotes

May you get what you wish for. Old Chinese Curse Quotes

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. Coventry Patmore Quotes

I bear a little more than I can bear. Elinor Hoyt Wylie Quotes

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. Maltbie D. Babcock Quotes

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. William Hazlitt Quotes

People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. William McFee Quotes

Adversity collapses around a true adherent soul. Jareb Teague Quotes

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse. William Shakespeare Quotes

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. Russian Proverb Quotes

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. André Gide Quotes

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Edmund Burke Quotes

The course of true anything never does run smooth. Samuel Butler Quotes

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. Steven Kloves Quotes

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. William James Quotes

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. Antonio Porchia Quotes

Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Ambrose Bierce Quotes

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. Max Lerner Quotes

Thorns and stings
And those such things
Just make stronger
Our angel wings.
Emme Woodhull-Bäche Quotes

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Let your joy scream across the pain. Ezbeth Wilder Quotes

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity. Sa'di (Musharrif-uddin) Quotes

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire Quotes

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. Oscar Wilde Quotes

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
Homer Quotes

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. Washington Irving Quotes

Problems are messages. Shakti Gawain Quotes

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. Olin Miller Quotes

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. Alexander Smith Quotes

Despair is anger with no place to go. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. Violeta Parra Quotes

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain. Antonio Porchia Quotes

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. Josephine Hart Quotes

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. Stanislaus I Quotes

Adversity enhances this tale we call life. Ever Garrison Quotes

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Sophocles Quotes

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes

Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better. Author Unknown Quotes

Fortune knocks but once, but misFortune has much more patience. Author Unknown Quotes

I had a lover's quarrel with the world. Robert Frost Quotes

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. André Gide Quotes

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Virginia Woolf Quotes

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.... Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. O. Henry Quotes

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe. Edward Westcott Quotes

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. Antonio Porchia Quotes

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington Quotes

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. Author Unknown Quotes

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

Much of your pain is self-chosen. Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. John Updike Quotes

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. Bernie S. Siegel Quotes

Adversity is the first path to truth. Lord Byron Quotes

Life didn't promise to be wonderful. Teddy Pendergrass Quotes

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. Edwin Markham Quotes

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after The Committee of sleep has worked on it. John Steinbeck Quotes

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. Quoted in Quotes

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. John Vance Cheney Quotes

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. James K. Feibleman Quotes

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

Adversity introduces a man to himself. Author Unknown Quotes

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne Quotes

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. Author Unknown Quotes

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959 Quotes

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. John A. Simone, Sr. Quotes

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. Frank A. Clark Quotes

There is no education like adversity. Disraeli Quotes

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. African Proverb Quotes

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. Colette Quotes

Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. Johann Paul Friedrich Richter Quotes

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie Quotes

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. Lee Drake Quotes

Every path hath a puddle. George Herbert, "Jacula Prudentum Quotes

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Rubin Quotes

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Mary Engelbreit Quotes

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. From the movie Quotes

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. Charles C. West Quotes

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. Lou Reed, "Magic and Loss" Quotes

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. Barbara Bloom Quotes

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. Arthur Golden Quotes

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney Quotes

It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants. Author Unknown Quotes

Bad is never good until worse happens. Danish Proverb Quotes

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa Quotes

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. Orson Scott Card Quotes

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. Author Unknown Quotes

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Frank A. Clark Quotes

Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey Quotes

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. Unknown Quotes

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose F. Kennedy Quotes

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. Jewish Proverb Quotes

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm Quotes

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. Garrison Keillor Quotes

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. Garth Brooks Quotes

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. Rona Barrett Quotes

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. Uncle Remus Quotes

We acquire the strength we have overcome. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. Harry Golden Quotes

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa Quotes

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. Author Unknown Quotes

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. William Shakespeare Quotes

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. Author Unknown Quotes

If you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill Quotes

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. M. Kathleen Casey Quotes

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. William Shakespeare Quotes

Hardship is best sailed with a heart ship. The Quote Garden Quotes

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. John Aughey Quotes

But ne'er the rose without the thorn. Robert Herrick Quotes

You never know what you've got until it's gone. Author Unknown Quotes

That was rough.... Thing to do now is try and forget it.... I guess I don't quite mean that. It's not a thing you can forget. Maybe not even a thing you want to forget.... Life's like that sometimes... Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin' the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted. But it's not all like that. A lot of it's mighty fine, and you can't afford to waste the good part frettin' about the bad. That makes it all bad.... Sure, I know - sayin' it's one thing and feelin' it's another. But I'll tell you a trick that's sometimes a big help. When you start lookin' around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it. From the movie Quotes

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. Josh Billings Quotes

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. Author Unknown Quotes

How can something bother you if you won't let it? The Quote Garden Quotes

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde Quotes

Soul talks to adversity. Jareb Teague Quotes

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Latin Proverb Quotes

We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to a Sky Quotes

Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams Quotes

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. Aesop Quotes

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson Quotes

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Louis Quotes

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle. Matthew Arnold Quotes

May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? Wystan Hugh Auden Quotes

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time. Honoré de Balzac Quotes

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire. Honoré de Balzac Quotes

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society. Edward C. Banfield Quotes

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? Roger Bannister Quotes

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. (Arthur) Clive Quotes

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need. Warren G. Bennis Quotes

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Proverbs 17:17 Bible Quotes

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. Josh Billings Quotes

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. Jim Quotes

Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. Jim Quotes

Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means. Lee C. Bollinger Quotes

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. Phyllis Bottome Quotes

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult. Nadia Boulanger Quotes

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. Dr. Joyce Quotes

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Henry Peter Brougham Quotes

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. William Cullen Bryant Quotes

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. Buddha Quotes

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. E. R. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. Edmund Burke Quotes

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. James Earl Quotes

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. William Ellery Channing Quotes

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

The three things most difficult are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure. Chilo Quotes

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. Churton Collins Quotes

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. Confucius Quotes

I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. Mario M(atthew) Cuomo Quotes

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. Robyn Davidson Quotes

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. Robyn Davidson Quotes

As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes

The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult. Marquise du Deffand Quotes

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. Rene Descartes Quotes

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. Isak Dinesen Quotes

When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.' Laertius Diogenes Quotes

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. Walt(er) Elias Disney Quotes

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect. Frederick Douglass Quotes

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein Quotes

The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. Albert Einstein Quotes

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. Albert Einstein Quotes

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. Albert Einstein Quotes

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. George Eliot Quotes

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Difficulties are things that show what men are. Epictetus Quotes

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty. Epictetus Quotes

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. Epictetus Quotes

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicurus Quotes

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead. Emmet Fox Quotes

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin Quotes

All things are difficult before they are easy. Dr. Thomas Fuller Quotes

Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems. John W(illiam) Gardner Quotes

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier. Baltasar Gracian Quotes

These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder." (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial) Jeff Greenfield Quotes

Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral. B. J. Gupta Quotes

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. Alexander Hamilton Quotes

I think when you go on trial they should have a parrot there that says guilty or not guilty for you, as a sort of courtesy. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen William Hawking Quotes

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt Quotes

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure. Joseph Heller Quotes

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit. Napolean Hill Quotes

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. Homer Quotes

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace Quotes

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. Aldous Leonard Huxley Quotes

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe. Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance. Thomas Jefferson Quotes

When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche--grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted--cannot easily receive a lesson. Roger John Quotes

Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. Dr. Samuel Johnson Quotes

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. Dr. Samuel Johnson Quotes

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture. Anandabai Joshee Quotes

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. Carl Gustav Jung Quotes

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation. Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. Helen Adams Keller Quotes

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes Quotes

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life. Eli Khamarov Quotes

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. Søren Aaby Kierkegaard Quotes

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Arthur Koestler Quotes

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Quotes

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. Michael Leuning Quotes

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve. Sophia Loren Quotes

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things. Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. Og Mandino Quotes

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. Horace Mann Quotes

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it. André Maurois Quotes

To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed. Phyllis McGinley Quotes

When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else? George Stanley McGovern Quotes

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Alfred A. Montapert Quotes

The difficulty in life is the choice. George Moore Quotes

Only grown-ups have difficulty with childproof bottles. Joe Moore Quotes

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. Edward R(oscoe) Murrow Quotes

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible." (On the Vietnam War) Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes

All things are difficult before they are easy. John Norley Quotes