He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.

Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.

On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Livingstone replied, "If you have men who will come only if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come even if there is no road at all." That's what top leaders want from the people working for them: they want individuals who are willing to do what others won't.

Life involves struggle.

The beliefs we hold should hold us up even when life feels like it's falling apart.

Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.

Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.