is there a quote for saying that everything is hard but it’s the way we handle it that makes us different?

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart.

Albert Camus

We boil at different degrees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A.Milne

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rodgers

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Make yourself necessary to someone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same…

Rudyard Kipling

Live with yourself: get to know how poorly furnished you are.

Persius

How’s that for starters?

John Lennon’s Working Class Hero says it pretty well:

As soon as your born they make you feel small,

By giving you no time instead of it all,

Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all,

A working class hero is something to be,

A working class hero is something to be.

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,

They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool,

Till you’re so ******* crazy you can’t follow their rules,

A working class hero is something to be,

A working class hero is something to be.

When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty odd years,

Then they expect you to pick a career,

When you can’t really function you’re so full of fear,

A working class hero is something to be,

A working class hero is something to be.

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,

And you think you’re so clever and classless and free,

But you’re still ******* peasents as far as I can see,

A working class hero is something to be,

A working class hero is something to be.

There’s room at the top they are telling you still,

But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,

If you want to be like the folks on the hill,

A working class hero is something to be.

A working class hero is something to be.

If you want to be a hero well just follow me,

If you want to be a hero well just follow me.

“Character matters; leadership descends from character.” That was said by Rush Limbaugh; a famous person with a powerful voice. The quote I like, and I don’t know where it comes from is this. “Character is not developed by the circumstances; it is revealed.”

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Jim Rohn

“We all go through the same things – it’s all just a different kind of the same thing.” – Susan Glaspell

I felt this one really fit what you were saying here. I hope this is good!

John Locke – All wealth is the product of labor.

life is like a box of chocolates or something i think the guys name was gump

Attitude is everything

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger

Friedrich Nietzsche