“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.”
English Proverb
“I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.”
J.C. Penney
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.”
Norman Vincent Peale