“There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive.”
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
- Benjamin Franklin
Perseverance
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
- Benjamin Franklin
Education
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness
"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
- Benjamin Franklin
Learning from Mistakes
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
- Benjamin Franklin
Growth
"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