It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

But don't stop worshiping. Never give up in the desert. You don't know how wide it is, and you may be almost across.

Life in community with broken people will always include such disappointments. But they can be met with resilience, and with a faith in the eternal significance of a life lived with the suffering. Such a life will never be easy or tidy; the work is endless and will always stretch on before us.

When I think of the human suffering, the terrible amount of energy needed to move even infinitesimally toward a more decent life I am amazed at human patience.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.