"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"
- Robert Burns
Compassion
"We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne [for old time's sake]."
- Robert Burns
Hope
"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!"
- Robert Burns
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