“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
"Can’t you see? Every step I have taken since I was that child on the bridge has been to bring myself closer to you."
- Arthur Golden
Love
"Anyone can have a good day. The question is, what do you do on a bad day? That’s when you’re being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day."
- Arthur Golden
Self-awareness
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."
- Arthur Golden
Adversity
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
- Arthur Golden
Persistence
"A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory."
- Arthur Golden
Focus
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"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
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity