To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you read more

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy read more

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is read more

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.

Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is read more

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

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

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

We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve to measure read more

We choose to go...not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.