It is difficulties that show what men are.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

It is difficult circumstances that show real men.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Difficulty attracts a man of character, for it is by embracing it that he fulfills himself.

Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.

Difficulties break some men but make others

La difficulté attire l'homme de caractère, car c'est en l'étreignant qu'il se réalise lui-même.

A man is also the child of circumstances, of difficulties, of struggle. Problems gradually sculpt him like a lathe sculpts a piece of metal.

Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to tremendous difficulties.