Showing posts with label overcoming quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label overcoming quotes. Show all posts

Friday, July 30, 2010

Hardship, Pain, and Sorrow Quotes...






Hardship, Pain, and Sorrow Quotes


"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise.
Wisdom makes life endurable."
- John Patrick


"Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain."
- Robert Gary Lee


"Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard
to realize this. For the world was built to develop character,
and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we
endure help us in our marching onward.”
- Henry Ford


"Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit
is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm."
- Norman Vincent Peale


"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
- Kenji Miyazawa


"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
- Henry W. Longfellow


"Pain is never permanent."
- St. Teresa of Avila


"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,
the more joy you can hold."
- Kahlil Gibran


"Clouds may come, but clouds must go,
and they have a silver lining. For beyond them all,
you know, the sun or moon is shining."
- Author Unknown


"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for
the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished
your daily task, go to sleep in peace."
- Victor Hugo


"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."
- Pierre-August Renoir



Saturday, November 29, 2008

Overcoming Quotes...



Overcoming Quotes

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps
life moving, you lose that courage to be, the quality that helps
you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There ain't nothing from the outside
that can lick any of us."
- Margaret Mitchell

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog
in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The harder the conflict, the more
glorious the triumph."
- Thomas Paine

"Some minds seem almost to create themselves,
springing up under every disadvantage and working their
solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles."
- Washington Irving

"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has."
- Billy Graham

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
- Jean De La Bruyere

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be
so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome."
- Anne Bradstreet

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm
learning to sail my ship."
- Louisa May Alcott

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries
with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."
- Napoleon Hill

"All the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of overcoming it."
- Hellen Keller

*dedicated to John K., my hero