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One ought never to turn one's
back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you
do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly
and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never
run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill |
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Look for a long time at what pleases
you, and for a longer time at what pains you. Colette
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A gem is not polished without
rubbing, nor a man made perfect without trials. Chinese
proverb |
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You cannot run away from a weakness;
you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so,
why not now, and where you stand? Robert Louis
Stevenson |
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Adversity is necessary to the
development of man's virtue. Wisdom of the Chinese |
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Alas, how scant the sheaves for
all the trouble, the toil, the pain and the resolve sublime a
few full ears; the rest but weeds and stubble, and withered wild
flowers plucked before their time. A.B. Bragdon |
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Sometimes being pushed to the
wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!
Peter
de Jager |
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A dose of adversity is often as
needful as a dose of medicine. B.C. Forbes |
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At the timberline where the storms
strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.
Hudson Newsletter |
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The storm also beats on the house
that is built on the rock. Author Unknown |
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The chief cause of failure and
unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the
moment. Author Unknown |
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The greatest battles of your life
are fought within the private chambers of your own soul.
Author Unknown |
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Adversity is the diamond dust
heaven polishes it's jewels with. Leighton |
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity
is the only balance to weigh friends. Plutarch
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Into each life some rain must
fall. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Do not free the camel of the burden
of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K.
Chesterton |
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The world breaks everyone and
afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
Ernest
Hemmingway |
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A certain amount of opposition
is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
John Neal |
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It takes a real storm in the average
person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done
over the squalls. Heartland Advisor |
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Tough times never last, but tough
people do. Robert H. Schuller |
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When it gets dark enough you can
see the stars. Lee Salk |
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He who can take advice is sometimes
superior to him who can give it. Karl von Knebel
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Every oak tree started out as
some nut who decided to stand their ground. Unknown
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If there is no struggle, there
is no progress. Frederick Douglass |
