“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
- Josh Billings
Love
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."
- Josh Billings
Love
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
- Josh Billings
Relationships
"Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of."
- Josh Billings
Adversity
"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."
- Josh Billings
Adversity
"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