Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I think it's very important to teach your children to struggle on some level.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

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.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Buck up or stay in the truck.

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

We are graduates of the school of patience.

Every day, across our state, we see grit and resilience.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

I've had to fight through a lot of adversity, but I just kept fighting.

I think there are things you can do to toughen yourself up.

You learn after losing quite a bit, year after year, that you have to continue to work hard, stay tough, and endure to the end before it's going to work out.

I think the kids that struggle are way more prepared for real life.