Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

When difficulties are overcome they become blessings.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.