Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee Williams
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco
If you can't go over, you must go under.
Yiddish Proverb
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Henry Ward Beecher
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.
Lawrence Bixby
The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.
Clarence Blasier
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
Les Brown
The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...
Robert Collier
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Havelock Ellis
It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.
Emmet Fox