The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Every beginning is hard.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

I'm having a rotten day. First I lock myself out of the house, then I rip my skirt climbing through the window, then Macy's computer eats my layaway. And now, old Noah here won't start.

Good conflict should push your character further and further from their goals, yet strengthen their motivation to push ahead. Many

Champions make their own luck.

There is no better test of character than a man's treatment of difficulties. The coward shuns them; the lazy man tries to go around them; the idler dawdles in front of them, waiting like Micawber for something to turn up or some miracle to remove them; the baby-man waits for some friend to lift him over them ; but the manly man surmounts them.

There is a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion.