Quote: No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you. Author: Sholom Aleichem 1859-1916, Ukraine-Born American Writer
Quote: Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. Author: Barbara De Angelis American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author
Quote: Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. Author: James G. Bilkey
Quote: There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. Author: Phyllis Bottome 1884-1963, American Writer
Quote: People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough. Author: Stuart Briscoe
Quote: As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. Author: Jean De La BruyFre 1645-1696, French Classical Writer
Quote: The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
Quote: Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. Author: William Ellery Channing 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author
Quote: Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: Hardship makes the world obscure. Author: Don Delillo 1926-, American Author
Quote: In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. Author: B. C. Forbes 1880-1954, American Publisher
Quote: The best way out of a difficulty is through it. Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. Author: Jose Ortega Y Gasset 1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher
Quote: As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. Author: Thomas Guthrie
Quote: Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. Author: George Herbert 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private. Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author
Quote: Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do . Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author
Quote: In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused. Author: King Charles I 1887-1922, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary
Quote: Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself. Author: Olga Korbut 1955-, Soviet Gymnast
Quote: It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. Author: Louis Kossuth
Quote: We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that morn.'' Author: C. S. Lewis 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
Quote: In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history. Author: Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American Journalist
Quote: Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas. Author: Alexander Maclaren 1826-1910, British Preacher
Quote: Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint Author: Don Marquis 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men. Author: William Mathews
Quote: Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. Author: John Neil
Quote: Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top -- or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another. Author: Richard M. Nixon 1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA
Quote: All things are difficult before they are easy. Author: John Norley
Quote: Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Author: Ronald E. Osborn
Quote: 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. Author: Boris Pasternak 1890-1960, Russian Poet, Novelist, Translator
Quote: In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing. Author: Proverb
Quote: If you can't go over, you must go under. Author: Jewish Proverb Sayings of Jewish Origin
Quote: We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges. Author: Abram Sacher
Quote: Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. Author: Marsha Sinetar American Author of ''To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love''
Quote: The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher
Quote: Bear the inevitable with dignity. Author: Streckfuss
Quote: Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast. Author: Charles Swindoll American Pastor, Author
Quote: A Christian is like a tea bag -- he's not worth much until he's been through some hot water. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Difficulties are stepping stones to success. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of effort required to accomplish something! A mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a scarecrow to children and fools and a stimulus to real men. Author: Samuel Warren
Quote: When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends. Author: Orson Welles 1915-1985, American Film Maker
Quote: Bumps are the things we climb on. Author: Warren Wiersbe
Quote: It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged. Author: Edward W. Ziegler