Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
If you can’t learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we’ll always have problems.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.
There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.
The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.
The deepest level of worship is praising God despite pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.
Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.
If you’re lazy, don’t expect much in terms of success. You’re owed nothing and success will not be given to you. It’s earned.
I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.