No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

Learning to expect problems saved me from a lot of wasted energy. Winners see problems as just another way to prove themselves.

Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

When Joy grew mad with awe, at counting future tears.