27 Quotes Tagged: trial

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

All struggle, all resistance is — must be — concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

It's all too much.

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants.

The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

To live is to war with trolls.