“In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.”
“Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.”
“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint”
“When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.”
“You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.”
“As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.”
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.”
“It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.”
“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that morn.''”
“It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.”
“Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.”
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.”
“The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.”
“Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.”
“In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.”
“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
“Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
“Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.”
“Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.”
“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”
“Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.”
“The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.”
“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.”
“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
“What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of effort required to accomplish something! A mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a scarecrow to children and fools and a stimulus to real men.”
“Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top -- or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things. Life is one crisis after another.”
“As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.”
“In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.”
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”