“You are not beaten until you admit it.”
George Patton

“He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.”
Henry Fielding

“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. ”
William Bryant

“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ”
Arthur Golden

“Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicted from the darkest storm.”
Charles Colton