Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Will Rogers
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
George Herbert
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
Robert H. Schuller
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
Denis Waitley
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.
Samuel Smiles
Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.
Unknown
It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
Edward W. Ziegler
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Alcott, Louisa May
Of course, the test difficulty depends on what you're doing, and on how you're doing it. I'm constantly asking "How much would I have to screw this up to write an incorrect function that passes these simple tests?" Occasionally the answer is "Not much," so I'll throw the code away and start over. It was probably perfect code, but that's not good enough.
Daniel J. Bernstein
The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
Napoleon Bonaparte