It matters if you don’t just give up.
It’s not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is these qualities that distinguish the strong soul from the weak.
The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can’t have it.
The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.
Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we’re made for, and what we’re responsible to give back to life.
In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces – never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Today’s patience can transform yesterday’s discouragements into tomorrow’s discoveries. Today’s purposes can turn yesterday’s defeats into tomorrow’s determination.
It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.
Keep trying. It’s only from the valley that the mountain seems high.
Don’t give up just because of what someone said. Use it as motivation to push harder.
Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.
I’ve always been a fighter. If you tell me I can’t, I’ll die trying to prove you wrong.
Nothing can stop you until you choose to be stopped.
If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.