“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
Washington Irving
“We are not defined by our trials, but by how we face them. We are all afraid; bravery is a choice, that though you may lose, you shall never be defeated.”
Jill Hanna
“Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great”
Rose F. Kennedy
“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.”
Tom Krause
“My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood”
Warren E. Burger
“I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.”
William Kidd
