"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass