“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds, and diamonds are made under pressure.”
"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
- Peter Marshall
Belief
"May freedom be seen, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to please to do what is right."
- Peter Marshall
Compassion
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."
- Peter Marshall
Courage
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
- Peter Marshall
Motivation
"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."
- Peter Marshall
Faith
"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