It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well.