INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES AND ANECDOTES ~ Words of Wisdom ~ May 9, 2011 by Dolores Ayotte

“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.” (Ralph Ransom)

“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. ”  (Harry Emerson Fosdick)

“The very greatest things~great thoughts, discoveries, inventions~have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.” (Samuel Smiles)