victories

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.

Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

To really enjoy the better things in life one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.