Everybody has their days of misfortune.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

There is no education like adversity.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.