Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
~ G. K. Chesterton
I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.
~ Michel De Montaigne
Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.
~ Sir Walter Scott
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.
~ Francis Bacon
To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.
~ French Proverb
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become.
~ Bishop Westcott
Strong men greet war tempest hard times. They wish as Pindar said to tread the floors of hell with necessities as hard as iron.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
~ Roger Mahony
Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
~ H. Jackson Brown
It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
~ Sylvia Plath
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
~ Luis Barragán
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
~ Earl Nightingale