"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." (Moliere)

You are not stopped by the mountain in your path, but by the small rock in your shoe.

You can't keep trouble from coming, but you needn't give it a chair to sit on.

"The time will come when we will look back and be satisfied with the events that seemed so hard to comprehend at the time." (Spencer W. Kimball)

"...from a distance we make every little thing seem like a mountain." (Victor Hugo, Les Miserables)

Do not fear the challenges of life, but approach them patiently, with faith in God. He will reward your faith with power not only to endure, but also overcome. (Rex D. Pinegar, "Faith - The Force of Life." Ensign, November 1982)

"Doubt is a spiritual poison that stunts eternal growth." (Richard G. Scott. "Happiness Now and Forever." Ensign Nov. 1979, p. 71)

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce." (Doug Horton)

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." (Michael Jordan)

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." (Joseph Addison)

"We are always in the forge or on the anvil. By trials, God is shaping us for higher things." (Henry Ward Beecher)

All the water in the world, no matter how hard it tried, could never sink a ship unless it got inside. And all the evil in the world, the blackest sin and kind, can never hurt you one least bit, unless you let it in. (quoted by Boyd K. Packer, "The Spirit of Revelation." Ensign. Nov 1999, p.23)