"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"You get to know who you really are in a crisis."
— Oprah Winfrey

"We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is difficult."
— John F. Kennedy

"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."
— Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

"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."
— Abigail Adams

"It's all too much."
— George Harrison

"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."
— Susan Sontag (At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches)

"To live is to war with trolls."
— Henrik Johan Ibsen

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
— John Quincy Adams

"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
— Nelson Mandela

"We are made to persist.
that's how we find out who we are."
— Tobias Wolff

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
— Woodrow Wilson

""The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.""
— Abigail Adams

"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"
— Fiona Apple

"A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities."
— Charles de Gaulle

"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."
— Susan Sontag (At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches)

"We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?"
— David Mamet

"The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him."
— J.R. Miller

""Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.

"It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.""
— Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)

"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."
— John Marshall