And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
If you risk nothing, you gain nothing.
I accept any challenge.
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it – and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.
Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.
A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.
If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn’t have an opportunity.
We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today, climate change, into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
You will always grow through – what you go through.
It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.
Challenge everything, assume nothing.
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.