Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

The Crucible.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.