Dick Cheney Quotes

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Life is not mean to be easy.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

I want the hardest, toughest challenges out there for me.

I'm familiar with adversity.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.

The pressure you are facing is not going to break you. It's going to make you.

Life does not forgive weakness.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

Tough times teach trust.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.