Thought for Today

"I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something."

~~~~~ Shelby Foote

Thought for Today

"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."

~~~~~ William Samuel Johnson

Thought for Today

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

~~~~~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Thought for Today

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

~~~~~ Robert W. Service

Thought for Today

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

~~~~~ Walt Disney

Thought for Today

"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."

~~~~~ William Samuel Johnson

Thought for Today

"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."

~~~~~ William Samuel Johnson

Thought for Today

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

~~~~~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Thought for Today

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."

~~~~~ Lewis Mumford

Thought for Today

"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."

~~~~~ William Samuel Johnson

Thought for Today

"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

~~~~~ W. Clement Stone

Thought for Today

"If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song."

~~~~~ Carl Perkins

Thought for Today

"When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid."

~~~~~ Maxim Gorky

Thought for Today

"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"

~~~~~ Thomas A. Edison

Thought for Today

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."

~~~~~ Samuel Smiles

Thought for Today

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

~~~~~ Gustave Flaubert

Thought for Today

"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."

~~~~~ William Samuel Johnson