Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.
Adversity
Epictetus
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
English proverb
Sir Douglas Bader
Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches
J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte
No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no
Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
William Butler Yeats
Sigmund Freud
Aristotle
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel