#adversity

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#sword #truth #wrong

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#contrast #suffering

Affliction is a good man's shining time. ↗

— Edward Young

#character #hard-times #perseverance #trials #perseverance

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982) ↗

— Jeffrey R. Holland

#speech

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#aspirations #aspiration

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#adversity

Sweet are the uses of adversity Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #adversity

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#resilience #strength #adversity

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#adversity

Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#fear #success #adversity