Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
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.
Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
Hardship makes the world obscure.
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.
If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either.
If you can't go over, you must go under.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
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.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
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.
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.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.
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