In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Albert Careb

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. Chinese Proverb

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.
E. E. Hale

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Proverb

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Louis Kossuth

I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Robert Southey

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Pietro Aretino

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Christian Nestell Bovee