“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”
“Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.”
“Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.”
“Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.”
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”
“Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.”
“When walking through the ''valley of shadows,'' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.”
“The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.”
“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.”
“There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.”
“Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
“In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.”
“When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.”
“I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”
“If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk.”
“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”
“There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.”
“A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.”
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”
“Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.”
“There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.”
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?”
“You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.”
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”
“Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
“It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.”
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”