I think the reason why I'm the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger.

There is a resiliency in the human spirit that keeps us going even when we have no reason to continue.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.

That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger," Mike said. "Except bears. Bears will kill you.

The heroic deeds of those great worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

What would Heracles have been if he had said, How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men? What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.

So decide now that you are worthy of living as a full-grown man who is making progress, and make everything that seems best be a law that you cannot go against. And if you meet with any hardship or anything pleasant or reputable or disreputable, then remember that the contest is now and the Olympic games are now and you cannot put things off any more and that your progress is made or destroyed by a single day and a single action