Quotes Added in November 2007

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.Charlotte Bronte

• adversity

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine

• circumstance
• success

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.Horace

• adversity

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.James Buckham

• discipline
• adversity
• temptation

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.William Mather Lewis

• discipline
• adversity

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.Aristotle

• character
• adversity

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated - it is finished when it surrenders.Ben Stein

• persistence
• defeat

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.Denis Waitley

• achievement
• accomplishment

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. Less good when they obey and acclaim him. Worse when they fear and despise him. Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you. But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did this ourselves."Lao Tzu

• leadership